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Delasol, a 33-year-old Bolivian gray titi monkey who lived at Lincoln Park Zoo, has died.

Those around the Chicago area will have their eyes to the skies Thursday as towns put on dazzling fireworks displays in celebration of Independence Day.

Travelers can expect congested roads, crowded airports and extended travel times heading into Thursday's Fourth of July holiday.

A woman who offered psychic readings in Lake View is accused of stealing more than $70,000 from a client.

A 17-year-old boy was shot and critically wounded Tuesday in Englewood.

Ballot challenges have been filed against 27 of 47 candidates for Chicago’s first ever school board elections.

A former Argonne National Laboratory employee has admitted to assaulting law enforcement officers during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot.

The U.S. Supreme Court will not consider challenges to Illinois’ controversial assault weapons ban, for now.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker and other Democratic governors plan to speak with President Joe Biden on Wednesday after they insisted on hearing directly from the president about the status of his reelection campaign in the wake of an abysmal debate…

A CTA bus passenger was in police custody Tuesday in connection with a fight during a ride through the Douglas neighborhood that ended with another passenger shot to death, the bus driver wounded and the bus crashing into a tree.

The extended weekend around the Fourth of July and what it means for fishing around the Chicago area leads this sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report.

A 31-year-old man sitting inside a parked vehicle was fatally shot Tuesday morning in Austin on the West Side.

In today's newsletter, we're focusing on a report from my colleagues at WBEZ which shows that at for-profit colleges in Illinois, students often end up worse off financially than when they enrolled.

Two people were injured in a fire that was intentionally set Monday night in Little Village.

A passenger was stabbed on a CTA Red Line train Monday night in Rogers Park on the North Side.

Independence Day at its best is a call to action to leave our children an America as good as its promise.

DEAR ABBY: I met this man online a year and a half ago. We have been together ever since. There is a serious problem with him watching porn. When we met, I knew he was doing it when I was not with him. He knows I'm not happy about it, and…

Everyone who takes Civics 101 learns this basic concept: In America, no one is above the law, not even the person who holds the nation's highest office.

A man died after he was pulled from Lake Michigan on Sunday morning near Burnham Harbor.

Cook County prosecutors on Monday detailed a disturbing history of domestic violence by a man accused of killing an 11-year-old boy earlier this year and severely injuring the boy’s mother.

A man was killed and a CTA bus driver wounded in a shooting on a bus early Monday in Douglas on the South Side.

A group aligned with President Joe Biden is challenging ballot petitions filed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in Illinois — claiming many signatures were fraudulent and that the independent presidential candidate is lying about his home address…

A Franklin Park woman has won $1 million from a scratch-off lottery ticket she purchased while grocery shopping.

Una multitud vestida de arcoiris llenaron las aceras en el corazón del vecindario de Lake View el domingo para el 53º Desfile del Orgullo anual de Chicago.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday ruled for the first time that former presidents have some immunity from prosecution, extending the delay in the Washington criminal case against Donald Trump on charges he plotted to overturn…

Chicago police ordered a "mass arrest" in the Lake View neighborhood early Monday morning, hours after the city’s Pride Parade took place nearby.

The sad reality of our world and our nation is that we have had so many notorious serial killings and mass murders in the 20th and 21st centuries that unless you’re a resident of the Albuquerque, New Mexico, region, you might not have even…

A man was found fatally shot Sunday night in Roseland on the Far South Side.

The family of a Waukegan man killed at Highland Park’s 2022 Fourth of July parade is suing gun maker Smith & Wesson, alleging it marketed an AR-15-style weapon to teenagers despite its use in mass shootings.

The Evanston Fire Department called off a search hours after a swimmer went missing near Lighthouse Beach on Sunday night, officials said.