Longtime lawmaker Dick Durbin announced plans to retire after five terms in the U.S. Senate. He joined “Chicago Tonight” for ...

A federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Elias Rodriguez, 31, with several new counts including murder of a ...

Kristi Noem, whose office oversees Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), visited suburban Lombard on Friday to criticize ...

Burnett represented parts of the West Side and the West Loop for 30 years on the Chicago City Council. He retired July 31.

News Media Corp., which owns local newspapers across five states, said it will close 14 operations in Wyoming, seven in ...

The event will mark the first open water swim in the Chicago River in nearly 100 years, according to organizers.

The ruling, which is likely to be appealed to the Illinois Supreme Court, endorses the effort backed by the city’s largest ...

On Wednesday, Governor JB Pritzker announced the creation of a new endowment for Illinois state parks, with the intention of ...

Health care leaders across Illinois are sounding the alarm over a new federal law slashing Medicaid, warning it could force ...

Chicago’s bungalows may be modest in size, but that doesn’t keep their owners from having grand ambitions when it comes to ...

On Saturday, people of all ages are invited to join the rodeo in Kane County and wrangle the rusty crayfish, an invasive ...

Police beats that had ShotSpotter sensors saw an approximately 17.8% decrease in violent crime and a 37.5% decrease in ...