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The Adams family was awarded $12.2 million in a lawsuit against a Chicago nursing home for failing to protect Shirley Adams from neglect, but they have yet to receive any money due to the facility's lack of liability insurance.

Alicia Warford listened over the phone on Sunday night as her son's life was taken.

Lunchtime in a parking lot outside the Corps of Engineers building, Brian Farrell stands behind a compact hot dog cart, calling out orders for an Arsenal Dog and a Chicago Dog. It’s a long way from the South Side suburbs of Chicago, where Farrell grew up eating hot dogs loaded...

Reports of gunfire early Monday froze traffic on the northbound Tri-State Tollway near the Halsted ramp in South Holland, as Illinois State Police shut down the roadway and funneled drivers onto South Halsted Street. Troopers walked the shoulder and ramps looking for evidence while commuters crawled through heavy backups until the highway reopened later in the morning.

Thirteen new road construction projects are scheduled to begin this year in Cook County, with another 40 projects continuing work from previous years, according to the county's Department of Transportation and Highways, which released its 2026 construction project map Tuesday.

An Evanston man has been arrested and charged with attempted murder in connection with the April 23 shooting at Mason Park, the Evanston Police Department announced Tuesday. In a news release, the department said that detectives identified Zacar Lee, 20, as a “person of interest” in the shooting, which video shows involved “two small groups exchang[ing] gunfire in the park before leaving the...

A strange theft trend is hitting Chicago and it could move across Illinois. Airbags are now a hot target and drivers are paying the price.

CHICAGO - One hundred years ago, a few thousand miles away across the Atlantic, a quiet moment in history rippled across northwestern Europe. The day was April 18, 1926. Ireland was coming off centuries of British rule and a bloody civil war and hadn't paused to understand where it stood, or how it had changed, in years. But the young nation was dawning a new...

Editor's note: The video above captured Big Boy No. 4014 in Illinois during a prior visit. A one-million-pound train known as Big Boy No. 4014, one of the largest steam locomotives ever built, will roll into the Chicago area in the coming weeks, drawing train enthusiasts and spectators from near and far.

The popular Uptown bar Holiday Club, known for its ‘80s theme nights and back-room dance floor, will close May 17 to make way for apartments, but its owner hopes to reopen elsewhere. “Come see us before we go bye bye,” the closing announcement on the 25-year-old bar’s Instagram reads....