Judge rules Cook County misspent $243 million in road funds
A Circuit Court judge ruled that Cook County misspent millions of dollars in funding for transportation.
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A Circuit Court judge ruled that Cook County misspent millions of dollars in funding for transportation.
Harvey Mayor Christopher J. Clark has died, city officials confirmed Friday
Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives are calling for Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss to testify before Congress over the city's response to Gaza protests at Northwestern University in 2024.
All but one outbound lane of the Eisenhower Expressway are shut down between 25th Avenue and Mannheim Road after a rollover crash involving a box truck.
Two people found dead in an Oswego house fire and explosion Thursday evening have been identified.
Heavy lake-effect snow is falling in Chicago, where the weather forecast calls for it to continue through Friday evening. Then the system will move to Northwest Indiana overnight.
A special event on Thursday marked 13 years since the murder of Hadiya Pendleton, the honor student who was shot and killed just days after she performed with her school band at President Obama's second inauguration parade.
A Lake County woman has a warning for other homeowners, after she said a contractor took thousands of dollars, destroyed part of her home, and then vanished, even leaving his tools behind.
Chicago city leaders are moving forward to install a new head of the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, the independent civilian agency that investigates police for officer-involved shootings or allegations of misconduct.
Heavy snow on Friday could affect both the morning and afternoon commutes, and drag into a multi-day event.
A 19-year-old man charged with the brutal murder of a pregnant woman in Downers Grove has been hospitalized in critical condition, after he injured himself at the DuPage County Jail on Thursday, sheriff's officials said.
A former Catholic school teacher, who just days ago was fired by the Archdiocese of Chicago, has been charged with sexually abusing a child while working as a private tutor in southwest suburban Orland Park.
A man and a woman were shot Thursday evening while in the parking lot outside the Chicago Police Department's Austin District station on the West Side.
A jury has found a Wisconsin man guilty of forging threats against President Donald Trump in an attempt to get a witness against him deported.
At least five people were rushed to the hospital after chemicals were mixed and created a dangerous gas at a swim school on Thursday afternoon in northwest suburban Park Ridge.