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A team of astrophysicists from Northwestern University has developed a new method to cut through the bright glare of starlight that blocks some distant planets from the view of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.
Illinois Democrats once again cruised to an easy sweep of statewide offices Tuesday night as the party gained ground across the nation — including in an Illinois General Assembly where they already held supermajorities.
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker spoke to reporters Wednesday morning, a day after winning another four years in Springfield.
Police in north suburban Waukegan were investigating after a 9-year-old girl found sewing needles, bobby pins, copper wire, and other foreign objects in her Halloween candy.
The projected first Muslim elected to the U.S. Senate told supporters in Detroit he had said "God willing" about the race all along, then took aim at Rogers, Vance and Trump. Here's what he said.
Democrats won big in Indiana Tuesday night, breaking a 14-year Republican supermajority in the state House of Representatives, electing the state's first openly gay U.S. representative, and electing a Democratic attorney general for the first time in 14 years.
A man has been charged in a deadly shooting at a Walmart in Hammond, Indiana, on Monday.
Cook County Public Health is offering free flu and COVID vaccines ahead of the holiday season.
Chicago voters on Election Day backed higher taxes on millionaires and a return to gunshot detection technology, but now it is up to elected leaders to decide what to do with this input.
An SUV crashed into a restaurant in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood early Wednesday morning.
At least six businesses were broken into on the same street in Rogers Park overnight.
The 2026 Illinois midterm election is Tuesday, November 3. Here are the results for all races including governor, Senate, House and Chicago school board president.
One person was killed in a shooting on Tuesday afternoon at a gas station in Chicago's south suburbs.
Chicago police issued a community alert Tuesday about a rash of auto thefts in the Lakeview and Uptown communities.
A bakery in the north Chicago suburb of Skokie was struck in a smash-and-grab burglary overnight Monday into Tuesday.
