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A former UPS worker who pleaded guilty to mail fraud for rerouting mail meant for the shipping company's headquarters to his Chicago apartment was sentenced to a year in prison.
The Illinois Department of Human Services reportedly has until April 21 to make significant improvements.
ISP Acting Director Brendan Kelly addressed the media Saturday, hours after Trooper Gerald Ellis, 36, was fatally struck on I-94.
Illinois State Police Trooper Gerald Ellis was fatally struck Saturday by a wrong-way driver on I-94 in Green Oaks.
Chicago is getting ready to celebrate the 11th annual Baconfest on April 5 and 6.
The Rolling Stones are postponing their latest tour so Mick Jagger can receive medical treatment.
With baseball season officially starting on Thursday, March 28, it's the perfect time for your taste buds to score a home run with the right hot dog.
From a sushi spot to a fried chicken joint, read on for a list of the newest destinations to arrive in Chicago recently.
Thomas Kokoraleis went to prison for the 1982 murder of a woman who lived in Elmhurst. Now he's a free man, despite efforts to keep him locked up.
The husband of a woman facing federal charges in an alleged forced labor scheme, accused of keeping 33 people from Guatemala in her basement, is a federal employee, CBS 2 has learned.
"Empire" actor Jussie Smollett's attorney, Patricia Brown Holmes, has contributed to State's Attorney Kim Foxx's campaign in the past, according to the state elections website.
A new report from the state health department revealed a higher than normal number of cases of several cancer types for people living near the Sterigenics plant in Willowbrook.
Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx insists that prosecutors handled the disorderly conduct charges against Jussie Smollett the same way they do in thousands of other low-level felony cases.
Sterigenics released the following statement Friday regarding the Illinois Department of Public Health's cancer incidence report.
Kokoraleis served more than 36 years behind bars for the murder of Lorry Ann Borowski before he was released from the Illinois River Correctional Center on Friday morning.
