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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s plan to place a casino in River West came one step closer to realization Monday when a City Council committee advanced legislation…
Mayor Lori Lightfoot may have said she was “deeply offended” by the deferred prosecution deal that federal prosecutors struck with former Ald. Daniel Solis, but she…
Former Oakbrook Terrace Mayor Tony Ragucci pleaded guilty Monday to participating in a red-light camera kickback scheme with a mob-connected businessman and his stepsons that allegedly…
House Speaker Michael Madigan knew in advance that several lobbyists would send secret, back-channel payments to a top lieutenant he’d ousted in a 2018 sexual harassment…
Brooke Landrum came to Chicago from Cincinnati in 2016 to attend Loyola University, and after graduation she decided to stay and settle into the bustling Lakeview…
On a steamy spring morning, Dave Jordan sat in the un-air-conditioned gym at Harlan Community Academy and pulled up his left shirt sleeve to receive his…
When medical marijuana sales began in Illinois in 2014, cannabis firms typically chose unobtrusive buildings, sometimes hidden away in industrial parks, to sell the controversial product.Almost…
A Joliet man faces a host of felonies, including murder, related to the beating death of a Hanover Park man inside his home.Brandon Beamish, 27, was…
A judge on Sunday denied bail to a 22-year-old South Side man who was wounded after he allegedly brought a gun to Millennium Park and pointed…
Calling last week’s mass shooting in the city’s Near North Side “a massacre in the middle of Chicago and State,” a Cook County judge on Sunday…