‘It was almost like The Twilight Zone’: Former R. Kelly runner testifies he...
Former R. Kelly runner testifies he escorted girls around on singer’s behalf, helped keep them confined at suburban Chicago mansion.
View ArticleIllinois lawmakers to convene Aug. 31 to make post-census fixes to...
They will make adjustments to state legislative maps now that more detailed data from the U.S. Census Bureau has been released.
View ArticleKenosha sees uneven recovery one year after Jacob Blake shooting and civil...
Uneven recovery in Kenosha a year after Jacob Blake shooting and civil unrest.
View ArticleAnother new speed camera is set to start ticketing drivers in Chicago this...
Ald. David Moore requested the camera but also a warning sign so it doesn't "trap" drivers.
View ArticleBiden to nominate Rahm Emanuel as ambassador to Japan after months of...
Former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has been officially named the U.S. ambassador to Japan by President Joe Biden
View ArticleCook County issues indoor mask mandate as delta surge pushes Illinois...
Cook County's new mask rule goes into effect Monday.
View ArticleAfter decades of allegations, one of R. Kelly’s accusers finally testified...
Allegations of sexual abuse have dogged Chicago R&B; superstar R. Kelly for more than 20 years, through myriad civil lawsuits, newspaper exposes, cable specials and criminal charges alleging he...
View Article1 dead, at least 9 wounded in shootings since Friday evening, police say
A woman was killed, and at least eight other people were wounded since Friday evening in city shootings, including a triple shooting on the West Side outside of a gas station, Chicago police said.
View ArticleIllinois Senate Republican leader has breakthrough COVID-19 case a day after...
Illinois Senate GOP leader Dan McConchie said he tested positive with a breakthrough case of COVID-19 a day after attending Republican Day at the Illinois State Fair.
View ArticleMan presumed drowned in Fox Lake while water-tubing
Divers from a number of Lake County fire departments were still searching for the man late Friday afternoon using sonar detection equipment.
View ArticleRev. Jesse Jackson, wife Jacqueline hospitalized for COVID-19
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, 79, and his wife, Jacqueline, 77, have been hospitalized after testing positive for COVID-19, according to a statement Saturday.
View ArticleBronzeville mourns longtime community organizer killed at 65. ‘Everything he...
Johnnie Owens, founder of the Bronzeville Neighborhood Farm and a longtime community organizer who worked with Barack Obama, was shot and killed at his home southwest of Chicago on Tuesday, his family...
View ArticleChicago weather: Beware high waves, rip currents
Stay off piers, jetties and breakwaters on Lake Michigan, the National Weather Service warned on social media Sunday morning.
View ArticleDon Everly, half of Everly Brothers duo who scored huge hit with ‘Bye Bye...
Don Everly, who with his late younger sibling Phil established the template for close harmony vocalizing in the chart-topping duo the Everly Brothers, died Saturday at age 84 in Nashville.
View Article40 shot, 5 killed in Chicago in weekend gun violence through Sunday
There were two mass shootings overnight that left two people dead and nine others wounded, Chicago police said.
View ArticleWeekend shootings leave 3 dead, at least 20 wounded as of Saturday night,...
As of Saturday night, two people were dead and at least 21 were wounded in gun violence since Friday evening, Chicago police said.
View ArticleAurora man killed, second person hurt in motorcycle crash on Naperville’s...
An Aurora man was killed and another person injured Saturday when the motorcycle they were riding went out of control after going over some railroad tracks in Naperville, police said.
View Article2 killed in shooting, crash on Eisenhower Expressway, state police say
Two people were killed along the Eisenhower Expressway in Lawndale early Sunday when a shooting led to a single-vehicle crash, according to Illinois State Police.
View ArticleBody pulled from Fox Lake Sunday was the man who fell from a water tube...
The body of a man who went under the surface of Fox Lake when a tube he was riding on flipped Friday was recovered Sunday morning, officials said.
View ArticleWarrior Moms send more than 50 youth to Great America on Saturday as a break...
More than 50 children gathered Saturday morning along South Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, waiting for a free field trip to Six Flags Great America in Gurnee.
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