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 ...

Cardinal Blase Cupich, archbishop of Chicago, on Christmas Eve visited patients at Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago. Cupich met with patients who were not able to be home to celebrate Christmas ...

A Rockford house fire Saturday night displaced nine individuals. Fire crews were called to 2012 Hulin St. at 11 p.m. Saturday to find heavy smoke coming from the residence. An attack line was deployed ...

A scaled-back housing development near downtown Oswego is expected to move forward following unanimous Village Board approval Dec. 9. The revised plan would convert a 12.3-acre former junior high ...

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 ...

A Harwood Heights woman died Wednesday evening in an accident on the Tri-State Tollway. Sylvia Barranco, 55, a resident of the 4400 block of North Newcastle Avenue, died in a four-vehicle accident ...

PEORIA – An invoice for just under $48,000 was sent to Sangamon County Administrator Brian McFadden by Peoria County Sheriff Chris Watkins to cover overtime hours, meals, security infrastructure and ...

Four police officers were hurt Friday during protests at the ICE facility in Broadview. Two Broadview officers and a Cook County Sheriff’s Police officer were transported to a local hospital for ...

Thirty high schools in Cook County saw more than 95 percent of their students graduate in four years. Those numbers helped push Illinois to its highest high school graduation rate in 15 years, ...

PEORIA — The number of protesters gathered outside the Peoria County Courthouse awaiting a verdict in the Sean Grayson murder trial continues to grow this afternoon. Jury deliberations have stretched ...

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.

On Sept. 10, former Congresswoman Melissa Bean, a banker and conservative “Blue Dog” Democrat, threw her hat into the Democratic primary ring, saying the 8th District “deserves a proven leader in ...