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Hitting the road this summer? Here’s how gas prices in Illinois compare to neighboring states.

Chicago South Side Birth Center celebrates Black Breastfeeding Week with first ‘Latch and Stroll’ event

A 25-year-old man was charged in the Tuesday stabbing death of another man in the Near North neighborhood, Chicago police said.

A 50-year-old man fatally wounded through window at a restaurant Friday night in the Humboldt Park neighborhood was among four people killed overnight in shootings, Chicago police said.

During a verbal altercation, a 30-year-old woman was shot in the knee while riding a CTA Red Line train in the Loop neighborhood shortly after midnight Saturday, Chicago police said.

Justin Pearlman died of a fentanyl and heroin overdose last September after what his mother calls his reluctant return to illicit opioids after a long period of recovery.

The Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, formerly known as the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, has a reputation for working miracles.

A group of affordable housing advocates have occupied all week the planned site of a luxury apartment tower in Uptown.

Celebrations ended tragically this month in Lake Michigan’s “Playpen” area when a boat rammed into a mom of two, leaving her without feet, and another boating accident claimed the life of a man remembered as a “great dad and a great brother.”

Three teens shot in South Austin Friday afternoon

The alderman of the 5th Ward has served on the council since 1999.

The Kansas City man at the center of an alleged scheme to hide a sex tape showing R. Kelly in a threesome with a 14-year-old girl told a federal jury Friday that he only handed over a partial copy of the tape to Kelly’s associates at first because he “didn’t think they’d know the difference.”

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Chicago and Illinois have seen the number of new cases decline for two straight weeks, public health data shows.

Kelly Powers Baria, of Powers & Sons Construction, said her grandfather had a saying: “Lift as you climb.”

Under guidance by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, license holders are prohibited from selling their preliminary “conditional” licenses until they are approved to begin retail sales

The EPA is designating some toxic industrial compounds used in cookware, carpets and firefighting foams as hazardous substances under the so-called Superfund law.

I bristle a little when Chicago is maligned and mischaracterized. That’s not blinders. It’s love. It’s loyalty. It’s commitment.

A new first-of-its-kind report details the conservation status of all 881 native tree species in the contiguous U.S.

As temperatures continue to creep down, fall is approaching in Chicago.

Joe E. Tata, the actor known as the Peach Pit diner owner Nat Bussichio on the 1990s teen drama “Beverly Hills, 90210” has died. He was 85.

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After a recent string of Chicago police officer suicides, mental health experts spoke with a City Council committee Thursday afternoon on what can be done to support officers.

Briahna Gatlin of Swank Publishing has been on the drill music scene for years. She discusses her new endeavor, the Purple Block Party.

Pension protections and Illinois referendum guaranteeing collective bargaining are promoted.

Jurors in the closely watched case have so far heard from 13 witnesses, including an alleged victim who testified last week Kelly videotaped sexual encounters with her when she was just 14.

New information from a police report obtained by the Tribune offered more details about what happened Wednesday when a hail of gunfire hit patrons on the patio of an ice cream shop.

NASCAR has named a veteran racing executive to set up a permanent Chicago office for the company and oversee the pop-up Chicago Street Course coming to Grant Park next summer.