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The Chicago Teachers Union is pushing back on a bill in Springfield designed to keep the Bears in Illinois.

The officer that was shot and critically wounded in a shooting that killed his partner last month is being moved to a rehabilitation facility Thursday, his family said.

CHICAGO - A rare catch in the Chicago River is drawing attention after an American eel was reeled in downtown. Ben Gorashchenko, 25, of River North, made the exciting discovery while fishing last week. Rare eel caught in Chicago River. The backstory:. Gorashchenko and his friend, Joshua Lee, 24, were...

CHICAGO - A boy was taken into custody after a firearm was recovered at a South Side high school Thursday morning. The incident happened around 8:40 a.m. at Perspectives Leadership Campus on South Lafayette Avenue in the Chatham neighborhood. According to school officials, security staff "immediately confiscated" a gun

Kevin Michael Doyle: actor in "The Untouchables," Second City alum, and Chicago cop. A life filled with humor, irony, and dedicated service.

The decision to release a five-time felon with four pending felony cases, including two violent robberies, on electronic monitoring was not a mistake, Cook County’s chief judge says, even though that man is now accused of going on to murder a Chicago police officer and gravely wounding the fallen officer’s partner.

A Chicago firefighter died on Thursday afternoon during a training exercise in the West Rogers Park neighborhood.

Angry and panicked parents flooded the street outside a troubled Chicago dress shop, fearing their children's prom dresses were lost when the store abruptly closed days before the big dance. But an unexpected turn of events only heightened the chaos. For years, Humboldt Park residents who wanted runway looks for...

All 22 defendants charged in a sweeping federal gambling and extortion case tied to northwest Indiana restaurants pleaded not guilty Thursday during arraignments in federal court in Hammond. One of the defendants runs a restaurant in Chicago and in court filings, is described as a churchgoing benefactor.

A new warning is going out to parents and children from Chicago's top drug enforcer about an alarming increase of potentially lethal drug combinations making their way to Chicago's illicit drug market.