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Chicago rapper Lil Durk mounted a rapid-fire defense Thursday, calling nine people to the witness stand — including the wife of one of the government’s star witnesses — on the same day both sides rested their case in the closely watched murder-for-hire trial . The judge then ordered jurors to return Tuesday for closing

Lovesac, the furniture retailer that recently opened a showroom on Chicago’s Southport Corridor, has found itself at the center of a national social media controversy after a comedian’s viral complaint about assembling one of the company’s couches escalated into a much larger debate over customer service, social media

Chicago’s police accountability agency has cleared two Chicago police officers who shot and killed a man in Hammond, Indiana, last year. In its final report, released Thursday, the Civilian Office of Police Accountability found that Joseph Navarro charged toward the officers after crashing his car and tried to shoot th

CHICAGO — A man is dead, and an investigation is underway following a shooting in front of a South Side business on Thursday afternoon. Chicago police said the incident unfolded just after 6 p.m. in the 7300 block of South Stony Island Avenue, in South Shore. According to police, the victim, a 37-year-old man, was […]

A former Ford Chicago Assembly Plant worker who spent five years as a lead operator has sued the automaker, alleging workplace harassment and retaliation. According to the complaint, she was recognized for her work and raised concerns about an alleged…

Traffic was backed up for miles after a crash on I-88 in the western suburbs of Chicago at the start of the afternoon rush hour on Thursday afternoon. Around 4 p.m., aerial video captured by NBC Chicago Sky 5 showed all but one of the westbound lanes of I-88 were shut down after a crash that appeared to involve a bridg

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

This piece also runs on the website A City That Works, a newsletter about public policy in the Chicago region. Alex Montero is the chairperson of Strong Towns Chicago, an all volunteer advocacy group focused on housing, street safety, and transit. As a guest op-ed, this article does not necessarily reflect Streetsblog

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.