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Fifty-seven years ago this month, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. moved to Chicago with plans to target public and private institutions “which have created infamous…
The Chicago Bears have hired Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren to be their president and CEO, the team announced Thursday.Warren, who has been with the Big…
Gleaming white, with dark brown accents and tall windows that shine sea-glass green in the winter sun, the Northbrook Park District’s 2-year-old Techny Prairie fitness center…
Medical experts say the new COVID-19 subvariant dubbed “kraken” is the most contagious version of the virus to emerge since the pandemic began — and it’s…
SPRINGFIELD — Every two years, when a new Illinois General Assembly is inaugurated, the leadership offers rhetoric filled with hope, bipartisanship and a message of unity…
The business landscape for gun sellers across Illinois changed with the stroke of a pen Tuesday night as Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker, in one of the…
Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s political team this week asked Chicago Public Schools teachers to help recruit their students for her reelection campaign in exchange for class credit…
Northwestern has hired an outside attorney to investigate alleged hazing within its football program.The school said in a statement Wednesday it “immediately” hired attorney Maggie Hickey…
A Chicago man who was on the run since September remained in custody of the DuPage County Jail on Wednesday after he was apprehended this week…
Chicago voters will get to see all nine mayoral candidates square off in their first live televised debate Jan. 19 on ABC7.The 90-minute, commercial-free debate will…