Pritzker issues disaster proclamation for 11 storm-ravaged counties
Gov. JB Pritzker on Tuesday issued a state disaster proclamation for eleven counties ravaged by severe weather this spring and early summer.
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Gov. JB Pritzker on Tuesday issued a state disaster proclamation for eleven counties ravaged by severe weather this spring and early summer.
During the incident, a reporter and photographer were approached by three men, one with a dog, before their news truck and gear were destroyed.
The unhoused have a new place to recover after getting out of the hospital.
The mother of a Loyola University freshman who was shot and killed in March delivered tearful testimony on Capitol Hill on Tuesday.
Chicago police said that a group of five men approached the two victims on March 24 in the 7800 block of South Calumet Avenue and shots were fired.
One of four piping plover chicks that recently hatched at Montrose Beach has died, the Chicago Piping Plovers conservation organization announced Tuesday.
A man was charged with videotaping a boy in a men's restroom at Woodfield Mall in Chicago's northwest suburbs last week.
Chicago's minimum wage will rise again on July 1, but for tipped workers the big jump that the city's hospitality industry had been bracing for has been delayed.
A Mundelein police officer died in a single-vehicle motorcycle crash early Sunday morning.
After the Supreme Court announced it would take up a challenge to Cook County's assault weapons ban, State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke said she is ready to defend the law before the high court.
Police in Burr Ridge, Illinois, issued a warning Tuesday about burglars using distractions to break into homes.
All of the Chicago area and Northwest Indiana have been upgraded to an Extreme Heat Warning through Thursday amid a Midwestern heat wave.
New video released Tuesday by the Oak Park Police Department shows tense moments from an officer-involved shooting this past spring.
Service was disrupted after a woman was hit and killed by a CTA Brown Line train Tuesday morning.
A 9-year-old boy from Arizona won a nice chunk of change recently, thanks in part to the signature of Chicago White Sox infielder and slugger Munetaka Murakami.
