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The technological evolution of the automobile has been the subject of some kind of exhibition at the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry going back more or less forever, but next year, a new approach to the subject with a new collection is coming.
The University of Illinois Chicago evacuated a student center Wednesday afternoon after authorities said one student attempted to stab another.
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.
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.
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.
In a review completed recently, the Cook County Office of the Independent Inspector General found persistent problems at the County Jail with supervision, maintenance, sanitation, and housing conditions.
Authorities on Tuesday identified a woman who was shot and killed the day before at the Walmart in Hammond, Indiana, where she worked.
Multiple pets were rescued from a residential fire in a building on busy Ashland Avenue in Chicago's Back of the Yards neighborhood Tuesday morning.
Necropsy reports this week specified the causes of death for two beluga whales at Shedd Aquarium after they were rescued from Canada.
Shots were fired near a polling place on Chicago's West Side Tuesday morning, but no one was struck.
A man stood charged Tuesday with attacking a firefighter in Chicago's Grand Crossing community this week.
Officials have picked the official 2026 Chicago Christmas tree, which will make a trip eastward from the suburbs.
A total of nine victims have now been identified in a mass shooting at a Halloween party in Bloomington, Illinois, this past weekend, including a student and cheerleader from North Central College in Naperville who was killed.
Open Books is closing its location in Chicago's West Loop, citing a decline in foot traffic and the rising cost of running a store in that community.