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Last summer, Kaylyn Ahn was drinking and acknowledges being “pretty inebriated” when a guy she’d been talking to picked her up to go to a friend’s…
Three musical instruments including a 1758 violin were stolen from a town home in the South Loop Wednesday morning while a family of musicians was sleeping.MingHuan…
Jeff O’Connor was up at 4 a.m. Wednesday, the day the president of the United States would be visiting his farm.“It’s planting season,” he had told…
The stepsons of a deceased mob-connected businessman have been charged with participating in a red-light camera kickback scheme that funneled thousands in cash payments to the…
About 15 hours after a corner in the Back of the Yards neighborhood was sprayed with gunfire Tuesday, leaving one man dead and four others wounded,…
Illinois’ top financial official has banned local governments from using a state program to collect debt from students who have been ticketed for truancy, eliminating a…
The potential for the casino to bring increased traffic, increased crime and decreased property values to the River West neighborhood were among the worries city officials…
A Cook County judge on Thursday placed a Democrat and two Republicans vying for a spot on the Illinois Supreme Court back on the ballot after…
A beach party that turned into a “large altercation” and spilled over into the streets of the Old Town neighborhood Wednesday night left one person charged…
Cook County assessor candidate Kari Steele said Thursday she disavows antisemitic comments made on a radio talk show hosted by her husband — who has often…