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Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced Monday that former Chicago clerk and state Sen. Miguel del Valle is her choice to be Chicago Public Schools board president.

She also appointed seven members to the Chicago Board of Education. The new members will be sworn in June 26.

Lightfoot previously said she…

Marking a historic moment in an expanding national movement, Illinois lawmakers Friday approved recreational marijuana legalization.

After a contentious debate in Springfield — during which one lawmaker even cracked eggs into a frying pan to depict the “brain on drugs” — the House of Representatives…

The parent company of Sears, controlled by former Sears CEO Edward Lampert, is buying the rest of Sears Hometown and Outlet Stores that it doesn’t already own and reuniting the business with the Sears and Kmart stores.

Sears Hometown was spun off from Sears Holdings Corp., the former parent company…

The Illinois General Assembly adjourned its spring session Sunday and delivered first-term Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s “think big” agenda as the Senate voted to raise motorists’ taxes and fees and embark upon a massive statewide gambling expansion that included a Chicago casino and legalized…

At least 50 people were shot across Chicago over the weekend, the most violent of the year with a toll even higher than during the long Memorial Day holiday just a week earlier.

More than half the victims were wounded during a 12-hour burst of gunfire from Friday evening to Saturday morning. At…

Rick Poole spent a month and a half waiting for the right weather conditions to ascend to the world’s highest peak.

When the chance finally opened up late last week, the Naperville man never imagined the final leg of his journey up Mount Everest would be met with hours of waiting in a single-file…

Most Chicagoans look at Lake Michigan and think recreation — a view and a beach, swimming and sailboats.

But the lake is also the site of a major freshwater port that draws oceangoing ships from the St. Lawrence Seaway. The Port of Chicago is in need of money to fix its aging infrastructure, and…

A 58-year-old man was shot in a drive-by attack Sunday night in the Little Village neighborhood on the Southwest Side.

A shooter in a gray sedan fired at a group of friends standing on the sidewalk about 9:50 p.m. in the 2600 block of West 24th Street, according to Chicago police.

The 58-year-old…

Gov. J.B. Pritzker took office in January and pushed an ambitious first-term legislative agenda.

The legislative session went into overtime despite the return of one-party Democratic rule in Springfield, with lawmakers addressing Pritzker’s aggressive agenda after four years of dysfunctional government…

When the Rev. Bonnie Perry first started working at All Saints Episcopal Church in Ravenswood, she remembers the pews being filled with no more than 30 parishioners during a Sunday service. Now, Perry estimates more than 300 people come to a service.

The secret? Building an active community inside…

Chicago police are investigating after two men were found dead in a car that had been traveling west on North Avenue in the Old Town Triangle neighborhood Sunday morning.

Just before 6 a.m., officers were called to the 100 block of West North Avenue for a report that the occupants of one vehicle…

The Hammond Police Department is asking for the public’s help in identifying a man suspected of robbing a bank Saturday afternoon.

The man walked into the Chase Bank on 169th Street pretending to be a customer, police spokesman Lt. Steve Kellogg said in a release late Saturday.

The man handed the…