A man has been charged with a fatal shooting Monday afternoon during an argument over a stolen heater at a homeless encampment in the South Loop, according to Cook County prosecutors. George ...

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul joined AGs in Virginia and Nevada on the lawsuit, filed against the archivist of the United States. ByAP [month] [day], [year], [hour]: [minute] [ampm] [timezone] ...

Challenger Jason Gonzales scored some major victories in his long quest to get the case before a jury, but U.S. District Judge Matthew F. Kennelly on Friday gave the key win to House Speaker Mike ...

Rather than being jailed, the 63-year-old man was diverted to treatment in an expanding program that’s reached hundreds of people.

A Chicago firefighter was injured early Tuesday at a fire at a vacant apartment complex in Albany Park on the Northwest Side. Fire crews responded to a building in the 3300 block of West Cullom ...

A 17-year-old boy was killed in a South Austin neighborhood shooting Monday night on the West Side. Jeremiah Parker had just gotten out of his vehicle about 8:30 p.m. and was entering a home in ...

The athletic 6-5 forward from tiny Leroy wasn’t even a blip on the radar after a so-so AAU run and an injury wiped out some exposure possibilities. He went from having no Division I offers in ...

Instead, he threw a sinker that started in the middle of the plate and ran in, a perfect pitch for Montero to turn on. He did exactly that and dropped a homer just beyond the left-field fence ...

If Nagy and Lazor keep their jobs, they sound inclined to hang on and see whether Trubisky finally can get it together. The Bears could use the franchise tag — OverTheCap projects the number for ...

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With Peters expected to miss the Vikings game — though Nagy said he hopes Peters can avoid being put on injured reserve — even the Bears’ best-case scenarios at offensive tackle are shaky ...

Kudos to Mary Mitchell for her column in the Sunday paper pointing out the crocodile tears of the Trump administration regarding DACA’s effect on African-American unemployment. She rightly ...