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A 13-year-old boy from Hebron, Indiana died from injuries he got after crashing on a BMX track in Hobart over the weekend, officials said.
A Chicago couple is accused of being at the center of a cocaine trafficking ring that was the target of an FBI bust Thursday.
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.
The ex-husband of a woman who was found dead in west suburban Oswego has been charged with her murder.
It cost taxpayers $21 million for hundreds of National Guards troops to be deployed to Chicago and Illinois, where they were kept on base by legal challenges and never mobilized.
Friday morning snow squalls in the Chicago weather forecast could make the commute extremely dangerous and result in 1 to 3 inches of accumulation before Northwest Indiana gets clobbered by lake effect snow this weekend.
FBI agents carried out out drug trafficking takedowns on Chicago's West Side and in the western suburbs early Thursday morning, according to local officials.
A judge scolded lawyers for the Trump administration in a hearing about Marimar Martinez's demand to release bodycam video of her being shot five times by a Border Patrol agent in Chicago last fall.
Sean Grayson, the Illinois deputy convicted of second-degree murder in the Sonya Massey shooting, was sentenced to 20 years in prison Thursday.
A 29-year-old man is now charged with six counts of first-degree murder for the death of a Joliet mother and her 4-year-old son over the weekend.
The suspect is facing multiple felonies, including first-degree murder and aggravated arson.