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The Cook County Democratic Party Central Committee met for day two of slating and opted for an open primary in the race for U ...

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The Chicago area has felt less of an impact from the Trump administration’s National Weather Service cuts than offices in the ...

The “ Good Trouble Lives On ” national day of action took place around the United States to protest President Donald Trump’s ...

Ninety-three skilled nursing home facilities in Illinois are among 579 across the United States that have been deemed at-risk ...

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

By some estimates, cargo thefts are a $35 billion-a-year problem with the power to disrupt supply chains, and even increase ...

Iowa has a sales tax holiday on back-to-school clothing and footwear in early August, while Missouri offers a back-to-school ...

Illinois faces a demographic double bind. Not only are fewer women of childbearing age remaining in the state because of persistent outmigration, but those who stay are having few ...

Jack in the Box first opened in the Chicago area in the late 1960s and then relocated to the southwestern United States in ...