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Pritzker names new IDNR leader Gov. J.B. Pritzker has appointed Jim Montgomery to serve as the new director of the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, effective Monday, August 31 and pending Senate approval. Montgomery previously worked as executive director of the Illinois Prisoner Review Board. He was mayor of

A Lombard woman says she lost thousands of dollars in a scam that targeted her son's apartment sublease listing, highlighting what consumer advocates describe as a growing threat to landlords and people subleasing their properties.

Someone in Elk Grove Village is sitting on an $800,000 Lucky Day Lotto ticket from Monday's drawing. The winning numbers are still unclaimed, and that ticket could be anywhere from a junk drawer to a kitchen counter.

A 67-year-old woman is hospitalized after she was shot in the leg outside her home in Chicago's Roseland neighborhood early Friday morning, police said.

Nolan Wells’ parents — and any family who has been betrayed by anti-Blackness in this country — should not have to continue this journey alone.

Shots were fired inside a home in Chicago's Austin neighborhood early Friday morning.

A man driving an ATV died after a crash Friday afternoon on the city's Southwest Side, Chicago police said.

Mayor Brandon Johnson has signed an executive order making Chicago the first major city to tie municipal contracts directly to ethical and public integrity standards. Community advocate Dorian Warren joins the Chicago Report to break down how the new mandate forces vendors to disclose ties to ICE enforcement, federal l

Chicago police are asking for the public’s help identifying a man who they say inappropriately touched a 10-year-old girl at the Humboldt Park swimming pool this month. CPD officers responded to the pool, 3041 West Augusta Boulevard, around 2:25 p.m. on August 12 after the man pictured above approached the girl and tou

Closure of Hackney's on Lake in Glenview brings out old customers and staff