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A five month old baby girl was fatally shot Friday evening in a vehicle in South Shore, officials said. The baby was in a car in…
Some legal experts in the Chicago area say the Supreme Court’s legal reasoning in overturning Roe v. Wade indicates it is willing to revisit landmark cases…
More than 45,000 people received abortions in Illinois in 2020, according to the most recent data available form the Illinois Department of Public Health.Most of those…
A Whiting man was sentenced to 180 years Friday in connection with a 1998 Hammond triple murder.James Higgason III, now 52, claimed innocence and said he…
A Cook County jury this week convicted a Dixmoor police commander of aggravated battery and official misconduct for dragging a 66-year-old woman into the police station…
A Crown Point man was sentenced to 35 years Friday for fatally stabbing his girlfriend’s daughter’s boyfriend.Mark Jaramillo, 47, was convicted last fall in the April…
Vice President Kamala Harris had planned to discuss the Biden administration’s plan to improve maternal health care during her visit Friday to C.W. Avery Family YMCA…
SPRINGFIELD — A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit filed by a group representing gas station owners that fought a requirement for businesses to display…
Anti-abortion groups gathered in downtown Chicago to celebrate the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade decision.The March for Life, Illinois Right to Life, and attorneys with…
AdvertisementChicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot lambasted the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade as “a horrible tragedy” and threatened legal tactics against other states who…