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State lawmakers will take up debate in the new year over whether to expand gambling.
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State lawmakers will take up debate in the new year over whether to expand gambling.
The head of the Chicago Teachers Union says voters – and not the mayor – should decide who runs the school district.
If you have a lead foot, you'll want to ease up on the pedal in 2011. In just a few days, a new Illinois law will crack down on aggressive drivers.
If you have a lead foot, you'll want to ease up on the pedal in 2011. In just a few days, a new Illinois law will crack down on aggressive drivers.
The state's second largest school district has avoided digging deeper in debt to pay its bills, for now.
Mary Wood of Flossmoor celebrated her 105th birthday Sunday.
The world's first blood bank was created at Cook County Hospital in 1937, and now, the Lincoln Park Zoo has begun a registry of ape blood types.
Family and friends are set to begin saying their final goodbyes to the two Chicago firefighters killed in the line of duty last week.
The head of a Far South Side church missed the deadline for Toys for Tots. But needy kids will get Christmas presents this afternoon.
Family, friends and fans gathered at Holy Name Cathedral Friday morning to honor the life of Cubs legend Ron Santo.
Maine South High School in Park Ridge faces possible sanctions, over counterfeit sideline passes after its football team won its third consecutive state championship this weekend.
Police believe the death of a Bears fan at Soldier Field during the game Sunday was a tragic accident.
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Wanted: A good home for tree that has been growing outside a Tinley Park apartment building near 175th and Ridgeland for at least 40 years.
Friends of a slain South Side teen are keeping up pressure on the University of Chicago Medical Center with a protest today designed to get the hospital to reopen its trauma center.
A funeral director says his funeral home recently sent two bodies to a crematorium, but the two sets of ashes it got back were labeled with the same name.
Illinois has the second-highest number cooking fires on Thanksgiving.
Republicans have picked up three key congressional seats and two other races are still very close.
Big-time cuts could be coming to Taste of Chicago and six other lakefront music festivals.
Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart will not be running for mayor of Chicago.
Parishioners at the Apostolic Church of God said their final farewells to Bishop Arthur Brazier over the weekend.
A Pilsen woman who was expected to deliver a large baby, says she wasn't given the option of having a C-section.
The late-night activity in the county building was for a TV shoot.
US Senate Candidate Alexi Giannoulias was out stumping for votes Wednesday morning ahead of a fundraiser with First Lady Michelle Obama today.
Chicago Public Schools has been working with parents at Whittier Elementary well before they staged a sit-in at a field house slated for demolition.
