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Illinois and Cook County officials are beefing up government services to help more residents obtain REAL IDs, and avoid a new $45 penalty that will be instituted next year for air travelers without the updated identification. Illinois Secretary of State …

A year after Lacramioara Beldie was killed by her estranged husband, who’d been ordered to stay away, her family has sued Cook County and the company that operated his tracking device. In the months leading up to her death, Beldie …

Workers at the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry have voted to approve their first union contract. The contract with the Hyde Park museum covers roughly 120 employees, and includes an average 8% pay raise and 3% annual increase over …

Rosemont police say they have found no evidence to back up actress Tara Reid’s claim that she was drugged at a hotel bar late last month, leading her to be hospitalized. Police said in a statement Wednesday said that, while …

The Village of Orland Park settled a lawsuit with a former police officer over accusations he was fired after filing a racial discrimination complaint. The village settled with former Orland Park Police officer William Sanchez for $524,000, the village said …

Ben Johnson was hired to make a quarterback out of Caleb Williams. But he’s also making a general manager out of Ryan Poles. Before Johnson was hired, Poles had more misses than hits. He traded for the eventual No. 1 …

DEKALB, Ill.— Winning a state football title is a common accomplishment at Mount Carmel. The school has a record 17 championships after defeating Oswego 20-3 in the Class 8A title game on Wednesday at NIU’s Huskie Stadium. This year’s Caravan, …

On the morning of Dec. 4, 1969, Nwaji Nefahito was in the Near West Side house where local and federal police stormed in and assassinated Black Panther leaders Mark Clark and Fred Hampton. Nefahito was shot twice, once in the …

The Bulls are walking a fine line these days. Actually, they’re tripping over that line and landing on their faces. How many injuries can one team endure and still have enough on the court to beat lottery-bound opponents? That’s a …

Moon Alert There are no restrictions to shopping or important decisions today. The moon is in Gemini. Aries (March 21-April 19) A so-so day Pay attention to everything you say and do because today’s full moon introduces an accident-prone influence …

Every year, some 5 million people travel to Lourdes, a little French town in the foothills of the Pyrenees Mountains — drawn by a teenage girl who, believers say, saw the Virgin Mary there almost 170 years ago. But will …

One of Chicago’s newest police sergeants had been deemed “unfit to serve” after an investigation uncovered evidence that he created a fake Facebook account and distributed a nude photo of a woman he was sexually involved with, then lied to …

Cristel Paiz locks the door of her Berwyn yoga studio before dimming the lights and sitting on her pink yoga mat. “Bring your mind to this moment,” Paiz says in Spanish as she guides four women of various ages through …

Alina Habba said she was the acting U.S. attorney for New Jersey. President Donald Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi agreed. All three were wrong, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit ruled this week. That unanimous decision, …

DEAR ABBY: I have a brother who is very opinionated and in my face any time I don’t agree with him. It doesn’t matter what the subject is; he thinks he’s the only one who knows anything about it. He …

Over years and years of covering politics, the last decade of which has been spent covering Donald Trump specifically, I’ve learned you can never really count him out. It’s been a painful, exhausting, and deeply disappointing lesson but an important …

The Major League Baseball winter meetings next week in Orlando, Florida, are shaping up to be eventful, with plenty of action already stirring. That’s a change from 2023 and 2024, when Shohei Ohtani’s and Juan Soto’s market-setting free agencies put …

A Schaumburg man appeared unconscious before his vehicle veered into the opposite lanes then struck a fire hydrant in Elk Grove Village, resulting in his death, police said Wednesday. The single-vehicle crash occurred at 11:52 a.m. Tuesday on Biesterfield Road …

Three people were killed when a vehicle lost control and crashed on I-290 in northwest suburban Itasca, shutting lanes down for over four hours late Wednesday. State troopers responded to the westbound lanes of I-290 to I-355 around 11:40 p.m. …

El Departamento de Policía de Hanover Park anunció el martes que el oficial Radule Bojovic, nacido en Montenegro, ha regresado a su estado de trabajo completo después de haber sido detenido en octubre por agentes del Servicio de Inmigración y …