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Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul has filed a lawsuit against ABC Plumbing, Heating, Cooling & Electric Inc., accusing the Arlington Heights-based company of misleading customers, most often senior citizens, into signing home-repair contracts at inflated prices for work that was often sloppy, incomplete, or entirel

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A cluster of storms could hit parts of northeast Illinois and northwest Indiana overnight Thursday and into the morning on Friday, bringing with them a potential for flash flooding, the National Weather Service warned. The storms could hit between 3 a.m. through 11 a.m. on Friday, NWS predicted, and the...

A gas station staple will soon be no more at a Midwest-based convenience chain.

Chicago police on Thursday issued a community alert about a robbery on a Chicago Transit Authority Blue Line train on the Near West Side this past weekend.

Chicago faces a $882.4 million budget gap next year, Mayor Brandon Johnson announced Thursday as he teed up his next fight for “tax-the-rich” funding streams he believes are needed to offset the city’s severe financial woes. “We will not balance this budget on the backs of working...

A man was killed in a shooting in Chicago's South Shore neighborhood Thursday night, police said.

CHICAGO — A woman is in critical condition following a shooting Thursday morning in Bronzeville. Just after 7:50 a.m., a woman, 33, was outside in the 4000 block of South Lake Park when a black sedan approached. A man got of the the sedan, shot at the woman and returned to his vehicle and fled […]

Newly obtained CPS records trace a former Chicago teacher’s employment history and document later abuse allegations as Nancy Alexander continues her decadeslong fight for justice and access to her student records.

(The Center Square0 – The Catholic archbishop of Chicago, two orders of nuns and a rural pharmacist filed a lawsuit against Illinois on Thursday over the state’s End-of-Life Options for Terminally Ill Patients Act. Cardinal Blase Cupich, the Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm, the Little Sisters of the Poor and