SPRINGFIELD -- Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Wednesday told the state's largest annual gathering of Illinois Democrats that "Republicans demagogue, Democrats deliver" as U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin warned that the latest [...]
With a new feature, Active Transportation Alliance's major fundraiser, Fifth Third Bike the Drive, rolls for the 21st time from 6:30-10:30 a.m. on Sunday, Sept. 3, with more than 16,000 [...]
Larry Snelling, the Chicago Police Department's 54-year-old counterterrorism chief, is Mayor Brandon Johnson's choice to be the city's new top cop. Determined to improve rock-bottom police morale, Johnson chose the [...]
Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Friday vetoed a bill that would have enabled the construction of new nuclear reactors in Illinois for the first time in more than three decades. The [...]
Local law enforcement officials said Friday they will enforce the state's ban on sales of high-powered weapons, following an Illinois Supreme Court ruling upholding the law. "We'll enforce the statute [...]
Brendan O'Leary spent more than two decades working for the FBI -- most of it in Chicago, and most of it investigating public corruption. But when it came to Illinois' [...]
More tornadoes touched down in Illinois during a recent 12-month span than in any other state. That's according to recent data released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that [...]
While Lollapalooza -- Illinois' largest music festival -- gets underway in Chicago, Mundelein is preparing to host a music festival purported to be the first in the state to allow [...]
A Bartlett man died Saturday after going missing while swimming in Lake Michigan off the Gary, Indiana, shoreline, officials said. Gary police were notified about 2:40 p.m. that the man [...]
A Chicago man and woman are charged in connection with a high-speed chase after a burglary Wednesday at a Walgreens in Lombard. Kionna Kemp, 23, of the 700 block of [...]
A 32-year-old Chicago man died early Monday after punching his fist through the window of a Lake County bar, causing a significant laceration to his arm and heavy bleeding, authorities [...]
A 10-year-old child was airlifted to a hospital Sunday afternoon after apparently being thrown from a carnival ride during the Taste of Antioch festival, authorities said. The incident prompted village [...]
Tornado sirens blared throughout the suburbs for the second time in a week as at least one twister formed Friday night. The National Weather Service in Romeoville said a tornado [...]
A Chicago man was sentenced to 20 years in prison Thursday for attempting to rob a beverage delivery truck driver in Naperville in 2021. Frederick Holmon, 33, of the 100 [...]
Amazon Prime Day is in full swing, with the online retail behemoth promising thousands of deals to its more than 150 million Prime members. But the two-day event is not [...]
Water woes for Aqua Illinois customers in Lake County may be nearing an end. An Aqua Illinois alert shared by the village of Hawthorn Woods Sunday morning said company officials [...]
Despite earlier corporate assurances that the problem was being resolved, hundreds of Lake County residents awoke Thursday without reliably safe drinking water for the fifth consecutive day. The emergency reportedly [...]
A woman has been charged with killing a man in a drunken-driving crash near Winfield. Christine M. Brocious, 36, of the 7000 block of Mather Avenue in Chicago Ridge, is [...]
A 53-year-old man died after suffering a medical emergency at the NASCAR Chicago Street Race site Friday morning. The incident occurred about 11:30 a.m. on the 500 block of South [...]