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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

Don Cornelius’ cultural creation gets a major 2026 revival as BET brings Soul Train Awards to Chicago with an unprecedented CBS broadcast. BET is bringing the “Soul Train Awards” back. This time, it won’t be in Beverly Hill. It will go back to where th iconic show...

For nearly a year, Isaac Anderson worked as a security guard at some of the city’s biggest annual events. That career, and whatever Anderson hoped to achieve with the rest of his life, derailed on an October morning in 2022 when he murdered a man aboard a Red Line train, a killing prosecutors said was sparked by Anders

A pedestrian was struck and killed on the Dan Ryan Expressway late Wednesday night.

While not quite as hot as the past two days, a third straight day with highs in the 90s is on tap for most of the metro area.