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While National Weather Service officials Thursday did not have an exact number of how many tornadoes blew through Chicago and the surrounding areas Wednesday evening, officials…
Vice President Kamala Harris plans three visits to Chicago over the next month for appearances with “key constituencies,” including audiences of Black, Latino, women and young…
Gov. J.B. Pritzker embarks Thursday on a trip to the United Kingdom to sell Illinois as a business destination as he continues looking for a marquee…
Newly minted Illinois state Sen. Natalie Toro was posing proudly for photos with Senate President Don Harmon earlier this week in a sweltering gym on Chicago’s…
Curators at the Illinois State Museum say they don’t know exactly how 38 wooden sculptures made their way from Kenya to Springfield. But the leading theory…
It took a lot for Maura Falcon, an asylum-seeker and mother, to speak up about the mistreatment and concerns that she says she has been experiencing…
Three endangered piping plovers — all barely a month old — were released Wednesday afternoon in a protected site at Montrose Beach, marking what volunteers say…
Animal welfare groups across Chicago urged people to take caution as they adopt and give away pets after a Wicker Park man was accused of animal…
Edward and Annie had a whirlwind courtship.While the COVID-19 pandemic shut down most of the world in 2020, their world opened up. They and other Shedd…
Former House Speaker Michael Madigan’s attempt to suppress the dozens of wiretapped calls and secret recordings that form the backbone of the government’s bombshell racketeering case…