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Gov. JB Pritzker and former Illinois Senator Darren Bailey faced off Tuesday evening with three weeks left before midterm elections.

FOX 2 - An 18-year-old from Washington Township was killed by a train on Sunday morning. Tomasino Offer was crossing train tracks in Wheaton, Illinois where he attends college, at the time of the accident. Offer was leaving church service with a friend and was hit by an eastbound Union...

Neighbors say they're concerned as pieces of concrete are falling from their balconies

A Cook County jury determined Chicago police officers were not liable for the death of a 55-year-old woman who was struck and killed by a driver being chased by officers, records show. The Chicago City Council refused in February to pay $8.25 million to resolve the lawsuit filed by the...

A man was in custody after police said he pushed a woman into the koi pond at Westfield Old Orchard shopping center and held her head underwater on Tuesday morning.

The FBI’s nationwide Operation Summer Heat 2.0 resulted in more than 8,900 arrests, 5,000 firearms seized and hundreds of children recovered, including eight in the Chicago area. In Chicago, agents arrested 88 suspected violent offenders, recovered 47 firearms and made 40 major narcotics seizures while targeting gangs, child predators...

Governor JB Pritzker and his Republican opponent, former State Senator Darren Bailey, square off Tuesday night in their only televised appearance of the fall campaign. The two will meet on Chicago public television station WTTW in what is being branded as a “forum” instead of a traditional debate.

Three men confronted an employee opening the Verizon store at 511 E. Lincoln Highway in New Lenox before 10:30 a.m. Saturday, with two of them displaying guns and demanding cell phones while a driver waited outside in a getaway vehicle. By the time investigators were done, police had recovered 74 stolen phones, two stolen vehicles, five firearms — including one altered to fire fully automatically — and five suspects were in custody.

LINCOLN PARK — When Caroline Novak first approached the man with a satchel stuffed with exotic and expensive nuts, she did so politely, curious about why squirrels in Lincoln Park deserved such fancy food. At this point, about a month ago now, Novak and other neighbors had seen the...

Chicago, Rockford, Springfield and Peoria break daily temperature records during unusual October heat.