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Pharmaceutical company Amgen has agreed to pay about $28 billion to buy Horizon Therapeutics, which has its U.S. headquarters in Deerfield.Horizon, which is based in Ireland,…
Joseph Kromelis, a fixture well known in downtown Chicago streets as “Walking Man,” has died months after he was set on fire in May while sleeping…
They light up the night on the darkest days of the year.They delight small children and let the neighbors know that you have goodwill to spare.AdvertisementAnd…
When the FTX.US headquarters opened in a gleaming new Fulton Market tower in May, Mayor Lori Lightfoot and her retinue stopped by to officially welcome the…
In November 2019, people trying to get to work or take weekend outings crammed themselves onto the “L,” public buses and commuter trains at least 39.6…
In 2018, Juvenile Court Presiding Judge Michael Toomin made the consequential decision to detain two 12-year-old boys facing gun charges despite a Cook County ordinance that…
Few people finish their college education in a retirement facility. But that’s what it took for 90-year-old Joyce Defauw to complete her bachelor’s degree in General…
A bar fight in Portage Park on the Northwest Side turned fatal early Sunday morning after gunfire broke out, leaving three people dead and one person…
Aurora police officers were justified in pursuing two suspects believed to be involved in an Arlington Heights stabbing in June in the moments before a fatal…
LONDON — U.S. and Scottish authorities said Sunday that the Libyan man suspected of making the bomb that destroyed a passenger plane over Lockerbie, Scotland, in…