The band at Lincoln-Way West High School marched Monday without director Steve Nedzel, the first time a rehearsal has taken place without...
Get the full story >>The number posted on fliers at drug treatment centers isn't for a typical hotline.
Get the full story >>Electricity continued to be a precious commodity for thousands of Chicago-area residents still without power Wednesday as a result of...
Get the full story >>The line of mighty storms that blew through the Chicago area Tuesday evening unleashed heavy rain, thunder and lightning, fierce winds and...
Get the full story >>The Chicago Public Schools board on Wednesday gave the district's newest steward, Jean-Claude Brizard, what none of his recent...
Get the full story >>Three years after well-known street artist Brendan Scanlon was stabbed to death in a brawl in the Logan Square neighborhood, some of his...
Get the full story >>Chicago will play host to world leaders next spring during NATO and G-8 summits, giving Mayor Rahm Emanuel an opportunity to shine in the...
Get the full story >>Niles officials claim that the village of Glenview owes them nearly $700,000 in unpaid water bills and are now suing their neighbor to the...
Get the full story >>The suspicious death of an elderly Kane County woman about six years ago sparked the creation of a countywide task force to review...
Get the full story >>A toddler who fell from a fourth-floor window in Arlington Heights emerged without any external injuries, police said.
Get the full story >>Illinois may indeed lead the nation when it comes to political corruption, but we're doing lousy in protecting the right of law-abiding...
Get the full story >>With Wisconsin poised to allow people to carry concealed weapons in public, gun advocates have made Illinois — the last holdout &#...
Get the full story >>SPRINGFIELD — Illinois lawmakers voted to continue taking a pay cut Wednesday, but not before a handful of senators complained about...
Get the full story >>Lake County prosecutors needed to provide little physical evidence to convince a jury that James L. Edwards was guilty of the heinous 1994...
Get the full story >>Construction could start this summer on a system of rail bridges on Chicago's South Side designed to unplug a major bottleneck that causes...
Get the full story >>To bring greater transparency to village government in Downers Grove, records of correspondences between council commissioners and village...
Get the full story >>A former child care attendant for the Cook County Circuit Court has sued the court, its chief judge and her former supervisor for...
Get the full story >>Prompted by a Tribune analysis of Metra's on-time performance, the commuter rail agency for the first time has begun posting detailed...
Get the full story >>A Chicago police officer's undercover operation to infiltrate a drug-trafficking organization helped lead to a yearlong investigation that...
Get the full story >>As a rehabilitative therapist, Holli Berger is practiced in the art of patience, helping ease her clients into a warm pool and working...
Get the full story >>Developers of a proposed 20-story building in Oak Park want the project to house rental units instead of condominiums or hotel rooms,...
Get the full story >>A Roman Catholic priest pleaded not guilty Wednesday to federal charges he tried to help Outfit hit man Frank Calabrese Sr. spirit a...
Get the full story >>Chicago aldermen are balking at a proposal to impose random drug tests on all city employees as the American Civil Liberties Union raises...
Get the full story >>The real Chicagoland food taste festival — the one in which I will spend hours slowly roasting several delicious whole pigs over coals...
Get the full story >>When Russ Hencinski looks out of his classroom window at Lane Tech High School, the science and astronomy teacher sees a strip mall with a...
Get the full story >>While talking Tuesday night about the tragic loss of his first wife and daughter, Vice President Joe Biden assured supporters of Citizens...
Get the full story >>While most Chicago Public Schools employees are required to live in the city, Mayor Rahm Emanuel has endorsed the new chief administrative...
Get the full story >>A powerful series of storms cut through the Chicago area from southwest to northeast Tuesday evening, bringing funnel clouds and wind...
Get the full story >>Mayor Rahm Emanuel's administration is shutting down the city's shared car lease program and planning to ask thousands of city employees...
Get the full story >>The first of many public hearings for what promises to be a years-long process to plan the Illiana Expressway drew scores of interested...
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Get the full story >>Taylor Stinchcomb's parents offered her a choice on her 13th birthday. They would lease a horse for her to ride or allow her to bring home a...
Get the full story >>After the village of Carpentersville passed a resolution making English the town's official language, Chris Krug, who thought the law was...
Get the full story >>The Cook County politician in charge of keeping records of federal income tax liens and mortgage foreclosure notifications now finds himself...
Get the full story >>A key al-Qaida member who had access to Osama bin Laden and allegedly financed terrorism invested millions of dollars with a Chicago futures...
Get the full story >>William A. Barnett, 94, a respected Chicago attorney who played a lead role in several high-profile cases that included the 1980 tax-fraud...
Get the full story >>In a public school system where almost half the students don't graduate, Shannon Hastings could have been just another dropout.
Get the full story >>Naperville Mayor George Pradel has found himself at the center of many of the skirmishes involving a restaurant that some feared would...
Get the full story >>MILWAUKEE — On a chilly Sunday morning, a 19-year-old Marquette University student walked into the campus security office and...
Get the full story >>Authorities on Tuesday were trying to determine what two men were doing on railroad tracks near the Chicago-Cicero border late Monday...
Get the full story >>A Darien man tried to plead guilty in court Tuesday to hate-crime and aggravated battery charges but denied accusations he used a racial...
Get the full story >>Â The honey will soon be flowing in Oak Park after the Village Board gave initial approval to allow beekeeping.
Get the full story >>New Mayor Rahm Emanuel's campaign trail idea of taking away Ald. Ed Burke's security detail to put a few more Chicago police officers on the...
Get the full story >>The emerald ash borer beetle has been confirmed in 22 additional suburban communities this spring as the battle against the exotic tree-...
Get the full story >>City leaders are looking at adding more access points for emergency vehicles, rerouting CTA buses in severe weather and installing more...
Get the full story >>An international Christian radio and television network based in West Frankfort in southern Illinois and the brother of the network's...
Get the full story >>A woman in her late 70s was removed from her Cicero home Monday after firefighters discovered more than 70 cats — including a dozen...
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