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An Illinois grand jury on Wednesday formally indicted the father of a man charged with fatally shooting seven people at a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park,…
The city’s early vote count is far outpacing recent election participation as voters return mail-in ballots in record numbers two weeks before Chicago’s Feb. 28 municipal…
The Chicago Bears embarked on a new era Wednesday with the purchase of a site in Arlington Heights where the team hopes to build a new…
With less than two weeks to go before Chicago’s election, Mayor Lori Lightfoot isn’t laughing at the Bears anymore.AdvertisementHer first reaction to the team’s interest in…
SPRINGFIELD — Gov. J.B. Pritzker stressed additional funding for education in his $49.6 million budget proposal Wednesday while also using the occasion to blast “a virulent form…
National Weather Service officials issued a wind advisory Wednesday morning for portions of central, east central, north central and northeast Illinois, and northwest Indiana in effect…
University of Chicago Medicine’s new cancer hospital will cost $182 million more to build than expected — and have fewer beds than originally planned — because…
Political committees supporting mayoral challengers U.S. Rep. Jesús “Chuy” García and former Chicago Public Schools CEO Paul Vallas are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars in…
On rainy afternoon last week, Robinette Haywood waited in line for a food pantry under an awning at the Chosen Tabernacle church with her two youngest…
Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Wednesday will propose $75 million in additional spending to add 5,000 slots to existing state-funded preschool programs, a modest down payment on…