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Linda had always been known as the neighborhood cat lover. It did not matter where she lived, how busy life became, or how many changes came her way. If there was a cat in need, Linda found her way to them. When she married and moved to a different part...

CHICAGO (RNS and NPR) — Some immigrants have made the emotionally fraught decision to give up church attendance. The post Fear of deportation keeps Chicago Latino immigrants home from Mass appeared first on RNS .

GREEN BAY (WLUK) -- The ringleader of a Chicago-to-Green Bay drug ring was sentenced Monday to 40 years in prison. Felton Currie was previously convicted of 15 charges, including 10 of fentanyl delivery. He was also placed on extended supervision for 30 years by Judge Samantha Wagner. Currie was one...

Illegal Alien Arrested After Border Agents Attacked in Chicago

The Chicago Bird Collision Monitors got a rather unusual call this past weekend about two bald eagles in a bit of a predicament.

CHICAGO - A 19-year-old Chicago man with multiple medical conditions has been reported missing after last being seen Friday in Evanston, according to Chicago police. Police said Michael King Jr. was last seen in the 2600 block of Ridge Avenue in Evanston on or about Nov. 7. He was wearing a gray hoodie, blue jeans...

A man was found shot to death inside a vehicle in Gresham on Friday night, but witnesses who heard the gunfire didn’t call police until they saw the man slumped over in his car about an hour later, according to an officer at the scene. The shooting happened in...

Thirteen people were shot in Chicago over the weekend, four of them fatally, marking the best performance for the same weekend since 2017, according to HeyJackass, a website that tracks Chicago violence using official and open-source data. The ages of the victims, 12 males and one female, ranged from 1...

At least 13 people were shot, four of them fatally, Friday into Sunday night in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s (D) Chicago. CBS News reported that police were called to the weekend’s first fatal shooting at 10:01 p.m. Friday. They found a 36-year-old man with multiple gunshot wounds deceased in “the 900 block of West 63rd...

Some people who think downstate gets the short end of the stick in Illinois government want to form a new state. G.H. Merritt, chairman of the board for an organization called New Illinois, wants a state split. She says that’s different from secession, which implies forming a new country. Merritt says Illinois...