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A former Joliet resident who was held for nearly two months in a prison in Honduras has been freed and is on his way out of the country, after the government dropped weapons charges against him and other crew members of a salvage ship.
Republican candidate for governor Bruce Rauner said he plans to appeal a Cook County judge's ruling that tosses out a ballot initiative seeking to impose term limits on state lawmakers.
Chicagoans who waited patiently for summer to arrive are now grumbling under their umbrellas.
I am madly in love in Ann Coulter.
It appears a lot of people are just itching to clean out their homes and get rid of items they no longer want, and are recycling instead of having garbage pile up in landfills.
A year after the U.S. Senate approved a comprehensive immigration reform plan, North Shore Congressman Brad Schneider said it's unfortunate the bill remains stalled in the House.
This is the beginning is something -- which the Bulls hope is a big something.
For much of this past week, the city's skyline has gone AWOL.
Environmental regulators and public health officials have begun investigating a septic company that has dumped raw sewage on a farm in northwest Indiana for nearly a decade.
A 24-year-old woman has been charged with DUI after driving the wrong way on the Stevenson Expressway (I-55) and causing a three-vehicle crash early Friday in southwest suburban Bolingbrook.
Police have decided not to press charges against either of two balloonists who landed their craft in in northwest suburban Huntley over the past week.
Albert Glover, 56, was in the 100 block of North Leamington Avenue about 1:35 p.m. when a vehicle pulled up and someone inside fired shots.
A young mother who had been missing since Monday was found dead in a Garfield Park garage on Thursday, along with a 31-year-old man. Authorities said they died from carbon monoxide poisoning.
Police said the boy was held in the basement of an Albany Park barber shop for a week; handcuffed to a table saw, and regularly beaten with a belt.
Drive-in movie theaters can be a fun twist on the same old trip to the movies. Whether it's a family-friendly outing or a nostalgic first date, Chicago has some great drive-in movie theaters worth taking a drive for.
