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SPRINGFIELD — Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson urged Illinois lawmakers to deliver funds for schools and youth employment Wednesday during his first visit to the state Capitol since…
Even as advocates celebrated the Chicago City Council’s vote Wednesday to make Promontory Point a historic landmark, they still called for vigilance.“You never know with the…
After six weeks of testimony, the “ComEd Four” bribery trial involving an alleged scheme to bribe House Speaker Michael Madigan is nearing an end.Before the jury…
A man died Tuesday near Wadsworth when the car in which he was riding apparently failed to slow at a stop sign and was struck by…
A county commissioner in far southeast Oklahoma who was apparently caught on tape discussing killing reporters and lynching Black people has resigned from office, Gov. Kevin…
What started in 2021 as a push for equity in education is now a campaign that seeks to secure “sweeping anti-racist legislation” in at least 20…
A man shot and wounded two cheerleaders in a Texas supermarket parking lot after one of them said she mistakenly got into his car thinking it…
A man and a woman were killed Tuesday night when their utility terrain vehicle left the roadway and struck a tree near Antioch, according to the…
National weather officials are expecting thunderstorms to develop Wednesday evening with winds up to 60 mph in portions of north-central and northeast Illinois, and northwest Indiana.The…
A 14-year-old girl shot and critically wounded in the Austin neighborhood last week died Monday afternoon, records from the Cook County medical examiner’s office show.Police officers…