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The race for Chicago mayor got even more crowded Wednesday with Ald. Sophia King announcing her candidacy.King, of the lakefront Fourth Ward, is the seventh person…
With a community-led movement to evict big-ticket music festivals from Douglass Park gaining steam, Riot Fest management has let go its event organizer and apologized to…
The parents of an Oswego man convicted of murdering his wife and children have filed suit claiming that investigators misled the grand jury in the case.Pierre…
Robert Boik, the Chicago Police Department’s executive director of constitutional policing and reform, was fired by the superintendent Tuesday after sending an email asking for a…
Leaders of the Arab American community called for people who believe Oak Lawn police officers used too much force in subduing a 17-year-old last month to…
Republican candidate for governor Darren Bailey, who faced bipartisan criticism for declaring that Holocaust deaths during World War II paled in comparison with lives lost through…
The CEO of Chicago Public Schools on Tuesday revealed the district’s COVID-19 protocols for the fall, including “strongly recommending” masks; restarting the in-school, free, weekly testing…
Judges overturned seven murder convictions Tuesday that had been tainted by allegations of misconduct by former Chicago police Detective Reynaldo Guevara.The Cook County State’s Attorney Office…
Ten children and two adults have been hospitalized after a van collided with a pickup truck in northeastern Indiana.A preliminary investigation shows the pickup truck failed…
Janice Thompson typically takes the Green Line to and from her job downtown, but recently she found her routine disrupted: Service on the Cottage Grove branch…