Four Chicago residents have been charged in connection with a Downers Grove restaurant burglary. Elmhurst police had initiated an investigation related to recent burglaries, including a review of ...

As Indigenous Peoples’ Day approaches, Brookfield Zoo Chicago officials reaffirmed their acknowledgment that the zoo sits on unceeded, traditional and ancestral homeland of Indigenous people.

A Chicago man faces multiple felonies in connection with properties being defaced on the city’s West Side. Philip Dominguez, 38, a resident of the 2400 block of South Springfield Avenue, faces five ...

A Rockford home sustained an estimated $100,000 in damage during a Thursday afternoon fire. Rockford firefighters were alerted to a residential structure fire shortly before 2:30 p.m. Thursday on the ...

The saga of the late Fox Lake police Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz came to a close when his widow, Melodie, accepted a $1 million payout derived from his pension holdings. Members of the Fox Lake ...

Elgin High School alumni include scientists and scholars, business execs and artists, musicians and journalists and even a Nobel Prize winner. But until last week memories of many distinguished former ...

The Republican primary field for the Illinois 11 th Congressional District has doubled with the addition of two new candidates vying for the opportunity to go against incumbent Democrat Bill Foster.

“From dirt to dazzling” is the promise of Naperville’s newest retail development. Demolition of retail buildings at the northeast corner of Illinois Route 59 and Aurora Avenue is nearly completed, and ...

Two Chicago Archdiocesan priests have each been accused of sexually abusing a child more than 30 years ago. Rev. Henry Kricek, a retired priest who has been living and serving at St. John of the Cross ...

One man was killed and another man was injured Monday night in a shooting on Chicago’s Near West Side. Police said an 18-year-old man and a 49-year-old man were standing outside at 10:40 p.m. Monday ...

Cook County Circuit Court Judge Kathaleen Lanahan was host for the ceremony, complete with honorariums and lunchtime treats. Since 1998, the Bridgeview Problem-Solving Courts have been part of the ...

A woman was killed Thursday evening when hit by a vehicle on the Chicago’s South Side. The woman, whose identity was not known as of press time, was struck by a Chevrolet shortly before 7 p.m.