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A second probable case of monkeypox was found in Chicago, the Illinois Department of Public Health said Friday evening.The second case was a close contact of…
SPRINGFIELD — Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Friday said the Illinois State Police no longer has any DNA evidence from sexual assault cases that has not been…
Teachers at the Old Town School of Folk Music announced Friday that they have reached a tentative first contract agreement with the school’s board of directors,…
A veteran Naperville police officer fatally shot a man Friday morning who came at him with a hatchet during what officials described as a routine traffic…
Federal prosecutors are asking for up to 34 years in prison for a former Indian movie producer who pleaded guilty to running a Chicago-based sex-trafficking ring…
A Tinley Park man has been charged with aggravated battery in connection with the death of a New Lenox man that started with a verbal altercation,…
As a mother who lost a son to Chicago’s pervasive gun violence, Maria Pike was not shocked to learn that firearm-related deaths have spiked across the…
A warm Thursday evening brought groups of people, with the occasional lone book-reader or phone-surfer, to the original limestone steps at Burnham Park’s Promontory Point, a…
When The Onion relocated its editorial operations from New York to Chicago 10 years ago, nearly a third of the East Coast scribes refused to move,…
Two state child welfare workers were removed from their duties following the suspicious death of 8-year-old Amaria Osby late last month in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood, allegedly…