Randall Darlin comes to Evans from Northglenn, Illinois where he was also a deputy chief in four years with the ...

The CPD committed to releasing “merit” promotion lists in 2017. Now, the city claims it would be an invasion of privacy.

Navy Pier, of course, is a lot more than 30 years old. It first opened as Municipal Pier in 1916 — 109 years ago. But before ...

Two members of the Illinois State University Police Department rode 390 miles to honor fallen officers, starting in Champaign and ending in Chicago, in order to pay respects to those who lost ...

After the convictions of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan and former Ald. Ed Burke, Chicago politics are falling under renewed scrutiny by those pushing for reform.

While Chicago-area public media outlets WBEZ and WTTW will get hurt if the Senate OK’s cuts, smaller stations in rural areas ...

A new study suggests that the American Dream is still more elusive for some people in Illinois than for others, and that the ...

Named after the airport, the Northwest Side locality is one of Chicago’s officially recognized 77 community areas. But ...

Chicago ended 2024 with a $161 million deficit. And a state bill boosting benefits for police and fire pensioners through 2055 will cost $7 billion, an analysis said.

Illinois has one of the nation’s worst problems with child sex abuse at juvenile detention centers. That's according to attorneys representing more than 900 survivors who have filed lawsuits ...

As Florian, 59, crossed the street at a Louisville intersection in a crosswalk “after having activated the flashing crosswalk lights,” Landry “came over the hill” in her SUV on July 8, 2024, ...

Chicago, that toddlin’ town.” It was certainly toddlin’ in the 1950s and 1960s, when that song was a hit for Frank Sinatra. The city had bounced back from the Great ...