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In a tony North Shore suburb, a showdown is taking place over a controversial plan to carve up a public beach and swap part of it…
Amy Lardner first heard the strangled squawking sound while walking near the Lincoln Park Zoo more than a decade ago.It was the call of the black-crowned…
Chicago police fired shots Saturday night on the South Side. It happened in the 9000 block of South Wentworth Avenue, according to the Civilian Office of…
More than a hundred grassroots activists, defeated candidates and party loyalists descended on a meeting of the Illinois Republican Party’s top leaders on Saturday, voicing frustration…
In an ultimate game changer, a concealed carry license holder fired back at two men who fired at him while he was walking to his vehicle…
Chicago police were conducting a death investigation after an unidentified male died in a fiery crash early Saturday morning in the Logan Square neighborhood. Police said…
A male suspect was placed into custody after a 31-year-old woman was shot in the head during a domestic-related incident Friday night in the Gresham neighborhood…
Here and there, more and more, the blue and orange bird known as the belted kingfisher is starting to appear outside its normal habitat of lakefronts…
Vivian Kisliak was a child who took charge. When her friends all tried to pile into her family’s golf cart, she’d maintain order, determining whose turn…
In what’s become an unwelcome tradition over the past two years, coronavirus cases and hospitalizations have been on the rise again in Illinois amid the holiday…