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Portage Township Assessor Crystal Millsap has kept her office's business personal property audit contract with The Leanor Group, a consulting firm owned by embattled Cook County Board of Review Commissioner Samantha Steele, even as Porter County officials question the high price tag. The arrangement, worth up to $150,000 per audit under the contract's fee schedule, has become a flashpoint during Millsap's bid against Republican challenger David Ondrovich.

(NEXSTAR) – After consulting its “maps and compass,” Trader Joe’s has announced plans to expand in multiple cities, marking just the latest expected expansion of the nation's favorite grocer.Trader Joe’s previously confirmed it would open at least 25 stores this year. The latest of those new stores recently opened in Herriman, Utah, and Lafayette, Louisiana, according to the company’s website. A store in Reading, Massachusetts, celebrated its grand opening on Wednesday.Last week, the grocer

A drive-by shooter injured four people on the city's Southwest Side on Friday night, Chicago police said.

CHICAGO — The set of “Holiday Touchdown: A Bears Love Story” has more secrets than Santa's workshop. The extras who are present for filming − clad in winter coats, beanies and scarves − gather in downtown’s Federal Plaza, where the city’s longstanding Christkindlmarket has been erected. It looks like a holiday wonderland, with local vendors displaying sweet confections, and glass ornaments paying homage to the city’s football team and popular attractions, like Cloud Gate (known as “The Bean”) .

Mount Prospect police are searching for suspects behind three attempted car burglaries on the village's east side early Wednesday, after home security cameras caught masked individuals holding what appeared to be handguns while trying to break into vehicles parked in residential driveways. One pickup truck was actually entered, though nothing was reported missing, while two other vehicles were saved only because their doors were locked.

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Now here’s something to chew on. Holly Geraci, the wife of well-known bankruptcy lawyer Peter Francis Geraci, filed a lawsuit against the condo association where they live after dogs were permitted in the building. The lawsuit, filed in March 2015, was against the Union Square Condominium Association, according to...

CHICAGO - A fuel mix-up at a gas station on Chicago’s South Side left six customers dealing with vehicle problems, according to the station’s owner. One family says their daughter’s Mercedes-Benz suffered damage after she filled up at the Sav-A-Stop near 111th Street and Racine Avenue in the Morgan Park neighborhood.

The "No Kings" movement returns to the Chicago area on Saturday ahead of the November midterms.

Federal immigration agents are facing legal scrutiny over their conduct during Operation Midway Blitz in the Chicago area. BY: MEGA A federal judge has warned that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents involved in Operation Midway Blitz could be forced to surrender their personal phones as part of a lawsuit brought by Illinois and Chicago challenging the legality of the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement tactics in Chicago. U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis raised concerns that fed