Evanston mayor asks Northwestern to pay police overtime bill for staffing...
Evanston police said the pepper spray was deployed to “prevent injury to bystanders and police officers.”
View Article17-year-old charged with killing his Hoffman Estates pot dealer 1 day after...
A 17-year-old Hoffman Estates boy has been charged with murder after prosecutors say he tried to rob his marijuana dealer, then killed the man the next day.
View ArticleTaco in a Bag is the latest Chicago restaurant closing due to the COVID-19...
Here is a running list of Chicago-area bars and restaurants that have closed for economic reasons due to the coronavirus pandemic.
View ArticleCoronavirus in Illinois updates: 6,516 new known COVID-19 cases and 68...
Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus in the Chicago area and the rest of Illinois.
View ArticleIllinois election live updates: Chicago turnout could hit 75%, relatively few...
Here are the latest election updates from across the Chicago area and Illinois.
View ArticleVoters in line at suburban Cook County polls Monday told to go home at 7 p.m....
Poll workers at some Cook County sites sent voters who were still in line about 7 p.m. home, an election official said. Cook County Clerk Karen Yarbrough’s election offices turned away voters who were...
View ArticleIndiana COVID-19 hospitalizations near 1,900, new state high; Lake County...
The state’s coronavirus hospitalizations as of Monday marked a 95% jump in Indiana’s COVID-19 patients during the past month, the data show.
View ArticleGOP Indiana AG candidate Rokita tops Dem challenger
Republican Todd Rokita staged a political comeback in winning the Indiana attorney general’s office on Tuesday.
View ArticleMail-in ballots processed at Chicago Board of Elections
Workers in the basement of the Chicago Board of Elections process mail-in ballots on Election Day, Nov. 3, 2020.
View ArticleBeecher fire destroys family home of South Chicago Heights nonprofit director
Fire crews aggressively attacked the fire, according to a news release from Beecher Fire Department, but were forced to spend “a great deal of time chasing the fire through the many concealed spaces of...
View ArticleThe Spin: Election Day — races to watch, waiting | Trump in Kenosha wonders...
Welcome to The Spin, the Chicago Tribune's politics newsletter.
View ArticleEric Holcomb wins reelection as Indiana governor
Eric Holcomb won a second four-year term as Indiana governor, fending off challengers who criticized his handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
View ArticleMayor Lori Lightfoot confronts activist in defense of Cook County Judge...
Mayor Lori Lightfoot mixed it up with an activist outside a Far North Side polling place over Cook County Judge Michael Toomin, accusing the woman of having her facts wrong and tossing in a shot at the...
View ArticleAP: Durbin wins Illinois U.S. Senate reelection as polls close
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin won reelection to a fifth term on Tuesday, continuing a pattern of Democratic dominance in the state, according to the Associated Press.
View ArticleChicago Tribune's presidential election front pages
What readers awoke to see on the front page of the Chicago Tribune following each presidential election from 1920 through 2020. To explore the full Chicago Tribune archive, go to newspapers.com.
View ArticleChicago-area voters shatter records as they cast ballots with ‘a sense of...
In Chicago, more than 1 million city residents had voted early, by mail or in person on Election Day
View ArticleFreshman U.S. Rep. Lauren Underwood in tight race with Republican Jim...
Rep. Lauren Underwood takes on state Sen. Jim Oberweis, of Oberweis Dairy fame, for the U.S. House seat in Illinois' 14th Congressional District in the north and western suburbs. And in the west and...
View ArticleMarijuana ballot measures ahead in several Chicago suburbs including...
From legal cannabis sales to raising taxes for schools, many voters faced referendum questions on this fall's ballots.
View ArticleSpeaker Madigan dealt blow as Democratic Illinois Supreme Court Justice...
Speaker Madigan tested by billionaires in Illinois Supreme Court Justice Tom Kilbride retention battle.
View ArticleReferendum that would have closed late-night Tai’s Til 4 fails in Chicago’s...
Longtime late night Chicago bar Tai’s Til 4 will get to keep the party going until 4 a.m. in the Lakeview neighborhood, after an effort by neighbors to vote the precinct dry failed Tuesday by a wide...
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