Former state Sen. Terry Link pleads guilty to tax evasion charge in federal...
Former state Sen. Terry Link on Wednesday pleaded guilty to a federal count of filing a false tax return, marking the latest conviction in a series of wide-ranging investigations against Illinois...
View ArticleWill, Kankakee counties closer to return to looser phase 4 restrictions;...
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker extended an eviction moratorium in place because of the COVID-19 pandemic for another 30 days.
View ArticleOak Forest man drowns in Great Smoky Mountains National Park
The National Park Service says an Illinois man is believed to have drowned in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park after falling into a natural wonder known as “Midnight Hole.”
View ArticleStudent turns himself in to Chicago cops after Western Illinois University...
A gunman shot a fellow Western Illinois University student inside a campus residence hall Tuesday night, forcing the university to cancel classes and shut down the campus while an active search for the...
View ArticleSocial Graces: Here’s what to do if your college student wants to visit home...
Your college student wants to come home for a weekend visit during the pandemic. Here's how to handle the request.
View ArticleStefani group drops request for court order to stop Navy Pier from evicting...
As Navy Pier sought to evict Riva and The Crystal Gardens unpaid rent, Stefani ownership is asked a judge to halt the move, but Navy Pier backed down.
View ArticleAttorney for woman slain in Wicker Park Walgreens questions state’s...
An attorney for the family of a woman stabbed to death in a Wicker Park neighborhood Walgreens slammed the Cook County state’s attorney’s office for their handling of the alleged murderer’s prior...
View ArticleThe Spin: Signs that sin taxes may be pandemic-proof | Ex-state Sen. Link...
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View ArticleChicago health commissioner looks ahead to building vaccine trust, eventual...
Chicago’s health commissioner on Wednesday said the coronavirus fight in 2021 could shift to convincing people to get the vaccine and then figuring out how to safely administer it to huge numbers of...
View ArticleCiting pandemic’s ‘unprecedented’ impact on November vote, Pritzker asks...
Anticipating “the most logistically challenging election of our lifetimes” amid the coronavirus pandemic, Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Wednesday asked state election officials to redirect at least $4 million...
View ArticleTeenage boy wounded in shooting on Far South Side
A 17-year-old boy was shot Wednesday afternoon in the West Pullman neighborhood on the Far South Side, Chicago police said.
View ArticleCoronavirus in Illinois updates: 1,941 new known COVID-19 cases and 35 more...
Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus in the Chicago area and the rest of Illinois.
View ArticleVisitor to Chicago comes to the aid of man shot in drive-by at Morse ‘L’...
Troy Laird used a water bottle from a friend to wash his bloody hands outside the Morse “L” station in Rogers Park. The glass door of the station was shattered from a drive-by shooting that killed a...
View ArticleWant to vote by mail in Illinois? Here’s how.
Here’s everything you need to know about voting by mail for the Illinois general election.
View Article2 charged in Michigan Avenue shooting attack, Near West Side pursuit and...
Two men have been charged after Chicago police officers witnessed someone fire gunshots downtown late Tuesday morning and people were taken into custody following a traffic crash on the West Side,...
View ArticleGovernor’s team to meet to address complaints about marijuana licensing process
Just 21 of some 700 applicants qualified for a lottery to determine who will get 75 new recreational marijuana retail licenses.
View ArticleMan killed in Albany Park seventh person shot within blocks of one another in...
A man fatally shot Wednesday evening in Chicago’s Albany Park neighborhood was at least the seventh person wounded or killed by gunfire in the Northwest Side community in the last three days.
View ArticleMasked robbers snatch Celine handbags during Neiman Marcus 'grab and run’ at...
It took ‘less than a minute’ for about a dozen robbers to knock over heavy glass display cases filled with expensive Celine handbags and flee with them Wednesday night at Neiman Marcus in Northbrook...
View Article‘He took a life, the life of a friend’: North Chicago man sentenced to 28...
A North Chicago man, who authorities say arranged to meet a longtime friend to an alley and then shot him to death during an altercation, was sentenced Wednesday to 28 years in prison.
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