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JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi’s top legal official has no plan to prosecute the white woman whose accusation set off the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till…
Whether it was several hundreds of people gathered together in a church to pray, a few hundred showing up to see him at the hospital, neighborhood…
Four Cook County employees committed “financial fraud directed at the federal government” by wrongly collecting roughly $120,000 in payroll protection plan loans intended to help businesses…
A City Council committee unanimously advanced a bundle of ethics amendments Friday that would overhaul the rules enforcing good government practices for a second time under…
Cooper Roberts, the 8-year-old boy paralyzed from the waist down after being wounded at the Independence Day parade shooting in Highland Park, is in “very critical”…
In a surprise move, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced Friday that she has appointed former Ald. Michael Scott Jr. to the board that oversees Chicago Public…
Ald. Harry Osterman, who has represented parts of Uptown, Edgewater and Andersonville for more than a decade, said Friday that he is stepping down at the…
Dozens of local birds, including the increasingly rare Henslow’s sparrow, are doing surprisingly well in Chicagoland, according to an analysis of 22 years of data by…
A brother and sister from Chicago are facing charges in the shooting death of 18-year-old Jailyn Logan-Bledsoe, fatally shot during a robbery and carjacking in Oak…
A Chicago police officer was found dead early Friday inside his home, according to the Police Department.Detectives are investigating the death of an active police officer…