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Read moreAs of mid-July, the city has reported 385 murders, a 48 percent increase from the same period in 2019,.
Read moreTrump said the Democratic leaders in places like Chicago don’t want federal help because “they’re afraid” of the violent mobs.
Read moreMayor 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…
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…
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…
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…