Earl Abernathy found the 7-month-old abandoned in a car seat in front of a Near West Side church as temperatures soared into ...

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 ...

"Nothing about them was materially different than the average American interstate traveler," their attorney said.

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 ...

Two gunmen walked up to a group and opened fire just after 11 p.m. in the 4800 block of South Justine Street, police said.

Illinois lawmakers have so far achieved mixed results in efforts to regulate the burgeoning technology of artificial intelligence, a task that butts up against moves by the Trump administration to ...

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