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When Ford announced it would stop installing AM radios in its vehicles this spring, it generated so much static among station owners, listener…
CHICAGO — Shedding new light on Chicago Public Schools’ recent disclosure that the district violated state laws in its use of physical restrai…
Professional forager Dave Odd confidently declared he could start a Sunday tour at Wilson Skate Park by identifying five edible plants right u…
CHICAGO — Dale Wheatley, who performs deliveries for the Anatomical Gift Association of Illinois, came into work two weeks ago and found sage …
CHICAGO — Mayor Brandon Johnson’s inauguration pledge to reopen Chicago’s city-run mental health clinics puts him on the clock to deliver a wi…
CHICAGO — Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signed the state’s $50.4 billion budget for the next fiscal year into law Wednesday, hailing it for being …
CHICAGO — An outbreak of salmonella infections in the Chicago area has been linked to ground beef, the Illinois Department of Public Health sa…
For about a year, Northwestern University professor Shana Kelley and a group of more than 20 Chicago scientists met every Saturday morning to …
An attorney for a Minnesota man charged in the stabbing death of a 15-year-old suburban Chicago girl more than half a century ago wants statem…
CHICAGO — Across the country, marshes, swamps and bogs quietly soak up flood water and filter pollutants. Ecologists agree they are one of the…
From its earliest days, Route 66 has reflected the American culture of the moment.
‘Class of COVID’: For this year’s graduating seniors, the pandemic dominated and defined high school
CHICAGO -- Jaylin Green was still adjusting to a new school in a new neighborhood when his barely rooted new life was uprooted in March of his…
Another Illinois barbecue legend has been inducted into The American Royal Association’s Barbecue Hall of Fame.
Tens of thousands fewer women were incarcerated in the U.S. between 2019 and 2020 due to COVID-19, but as prison populations creep back to pre…
HARVARD, Ill. — A police officer fatally shot a man overnight in a northern Illinois city after he refused to drop a knife during a domestic v…
CULLOM, Ill. — Hack Street isn’t exactly Michigan Avenue. The main thoroughfare of downstate Cullom — a town of around 600 about halfway betwe…
Chicago Bears officials met with Naperville Mayor Scott Wehrli on Friday to discuss the possibility of abandoning their plans for a new stadiu…
CHICAGO -- High above the heads of business professionals gathering for lunch downtown Thursday, the tail feathers of a peregrine falcon poppe…
Former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot will teach a course at Harvard later this year on “Health Policy and Leadership,” she announced on Thursday.
A Cook County, Illinois, program implemented during the height of the pandemic to provide legal and financial support to landlords and tenants…
A jury has convicted a former contestant on the television game show “Family Feud” of first-degree murder and home invasion in the shooting de…
When it came time to split up the first batch of $15 billion Congress set aside last year to replace toxic lead pipes, Illinois officials had …
As protests over the murder of George Floyd roiled the city on May 31, 2020, Astarte Washington, then 15, and her brother were trying to get f…
Almost a year after the mass shooting in Highland Park that left seven people dead and over 30 injured, Illinois lawmakers passed a bill that …
Survivors: Illinois AG’s report on clergy sex abuse is more detailed and transparent than Maryland’s
A new report by the Illinois Attorney General’s Office on sexual abuse by Catholic clergy in that state is too long for most readers to absorb…
So you have enough money to buy a yacht.
CHICAGO - Every year, Chicagoans relish the onset of “Summertime Chi,” when the frigid winter gives way to summer heat and outdoor spaces come…
FOX LAKE, Ill. — Police in northern Illinois fatally shot a man who lunged toward them with a knife when officers tried to arrest him, law enf…
CHICAGO — Chicago will receive less migrant aid than city leaders had hoped for in the new state budget deal, a continuation of Springfield’s …
Mayors and police officials around the U.S. are rolling out familiar strategies in response to the traditional summer bump in violent crime. T…
Walgreens is eliminating 504 corporate jobs, representing about 10% of the retail pharmacy giant’s corporate workforce, the company confirmed …
CHICAGO -- A Cook County judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by the city against a Northwest Indiana gun shop in a brief hearing Thursday.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Gov. JB Pritzker and fellow Democrats leading the state General Assembly announced Wednesday that they had reached an agre…
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