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Two contractors working on a pipe rehabilitation project in a Chicago suburb became trapped in a storm sewer after severe weather swept through the region Monday, July 27.

A federal judge has allowed a major civil rights lawsuit challenging Chicago Police Department traffic stop practices to move forward on behalf of thousands of Black and Latino drivers, marking the latest chapter in a legal battle over how and why the department conducts street and vehicle stops. In a...

MILWAUKEE, Wis. (WISN/WBAY) - Cell phone records for the woman who claimed immigration officials held her in custody illegally in Illinois and Wisconsin prove she, her sister and a politician family friend conspired to fabricate the claims and defame Dodge County Sheriff Dale Schmidt, a newly filed court document alleg

Chicago’s South and Southwest sides saw a grim run of violence from Tuesday evening into early Wednesday, with 11 people shot, two fatally, and another person seriously injured in a stabbing. The incidents unfolded across several neighborhoods, and police said they were separate cases rather than one connected attack.

A former teacher with a long history of child abuse allegations and convictions pleaded guilty earlier month to aggravated battery of a child after he was accused of inappropriate behavior with a 9-year-old boy he was hired to tutor in Orland Park. Brett Smith, 43, pleaded guilty on July 16....

One in every four people in Cook County are experiencing food insecurity, according to the Greater Chicago Food Depository. Kathy Wyckline is one of the many thousands who fell upon hard times in recent years and relied on her local food pantry for support. “There was a time that I...

A person is in custody after an Illinois State Police chase on I-57 that ended with a car crash in Dixmoor.

Chicago Executive Airport in suburban Wheeling was briefly closed Tuesday after a plane left a runway after landing on the tarmac. According to officials at the airport, a business jet landed on a runway at the airport at approximately 5:27 p.m. While that airplane was turning onto an adjacent taxiway, its landing gear

Chicago's rental market is about to get a new rulebook, and multifamily owners are running the numbers on what it could cost them. Two competing pieces of legislation are now sitting in front of the City Council, both aimed at tenants who are struggling with rent, but landlords say either version could cut directly int

Two people were hurt, one critically in a crash between an SUV and an ATV on the Northwest Side Tuesday night, Chicago police said.