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A Gulf War veteran has been sentenced to life in prison for the 2022 shooting death of a North Side liquor store owner.

Father Gary Graf has embarked on a remarkable pilgrimage for immigrant justice, walking from Dolton, Illinois — Pope Leo XIV’s childhood hometown — all the way to New York Harbor.

Taxpayers should pay $8 million to the family of a man who died after being strapped to a stretcher by Chicago Fire Department paramedics, city lawyers recommended. Leonardo Guerrero, 44, died at an Uptown hospital on Aug. 31, 2022, after his heart stopped in a Chicago Fire Department ambulance. The restraints...

CHICAGO, IL — A suburban Illinois woman says she recently discovered ICE agents staying at a hotel just blocks from her home — and claims they’ve been targeting local landscapers and nannies during early-morning raids in her neighborhood. The woman, who goes by @left_of_centaur on TikTok, posted...

Illinois State Troopers pushed back protesters outside a Chicago-area ICE facility Saturday, with several arrests reported amid tense confrontations.

A pedestrian was struck and killed by a train in Sandwich Thursday night, according to the Sandwich Police Department. The incident was reported at the railroad crossing at Center and N. Latham Streets at approximately 8:57 p.m. Officers arrived at the scene and found the pedestrian near the railroad tracks....

The victims of a deadly limousine rollover crash in 2016 have won a $104 million verdict against the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority.

MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota — The Upper Midwest is gearing up for a classic La Niña winter as cold Arctic air and frequent snow systems prepare to dominate Minnesota and Wisconsin through early 2026, according to new outlooks from the National Weather Service Twin Cities. Frequent Arctic Blasts and Persistent...

Illinois hospital staff will soon be required by law to refer parents of severely premature infants to services that can help prevent years of intensive and expensive therapy later, when the children are older. The new law follows reporting from The Hechinger Report that exposed how hospitals often fail to connect...

UPDATE: On Thursday evening, an ICE protest turned into some minor vandalism in downtown Aurora. The following is a statement from Aurora Mayor John Laesch – “On Thursday, October 9, the City of Aurora was alerted to a number of ICE sightings throughout the area, inciting panic and fear among residents. This...