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Two women were shot during a robbery in a South Shore apartment early Thursday, Chicago police said. A 37-year-old woman and a 29-year-old woman were in the apartment with a man they know just after midnight in the 7100 block …

With the U.S. House securing the passage of President Donald Trump’s landmark tax bill, health care advocates and Illinoisans are sorting out the sprawling impacts of a measure that could shutter nine hospitals in the state, kick more than 427,000 …

Margarito “Jay” Flores Jr. ascendió al mundo del narcotráfico, pasando de hacer hamburguesas en un McDonald’s en La Villita a convertirse en el cliente más confiable del rey del Cártel de Sinaloa de México, Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera. El …

A man was arrested after stealing a vehicle with a 7-month-old baby girl inside at a Lawndale gas station on Thursday morning. A 36-year-old woman was standing near her vehicle at a gas station in the 1200 block of South …

Un abogado de la familia de la oficial de la Policía de Chicago, Krystal Rivera, quien fue asesinada por su pareja de policía, Carlos Baker, dijo el miércoles que Baker nunca debió ser oficial de policía, dado que una queja …

Natasha McClendon worked about three days each week during the school year as a substitute teacher assistant for Chicago Public Schools. But she wasn’t able to land a job for the summer. The 48-year-old Englewood mom worries her struggles to …

NASCAR is back in Chicago this weekend, and it brought a new broadcaster. TNT takes over coverage of the Cup Series Chicago Street Race from NBC, which aired it the last two years. Before debuting last week in Atlanta, TNT …

The setting for the NASCAR Chicago Street Race gets a lot of attention, and rightly so. But what about the racing? “The biggest challenge for the drivers is that there’s zero margin of error anywhere on the entire track.” Yikes! …

Cleveland Guardians pitcher Luis Ortiz, who was scheduled to start against the Cubs Thursday night, was placed on non-disciplinary leave on Thursday due to a gambling investigation by Major League Baseball, two people with knowledge of the investigation told The …

LOS ANGELES — Famed Mexican boxer Julio César Chávez Jr. has been arrested for overstaying his visa and lying on a green card application and will be deported to Mexico, where he faces organized crime charges, U.S. federal officials said …

The WNBA has until October to negotiate a new collective bargaining agreement with the players — but judging by this week’s comments, the two sides aren’t exactly meeting in the middle. Union vice president Satou Sabally called the league’s opening …

July 30, 2017. While in a hotel room waiting to play the Cubs the next day, the Diamondbacks’ Ketel Marte received a call informing him that his mother, Elpidia Valdez, had been killed in a car accident in his hometown …

LOS ÁNGELES — El famoso boxeador mexicano Julio César Chávez Jr. ha sido arrestado por ingresar ilegalmente a los Estados Unidos y será deportado a México, donde enfrenta cargos por crimen organizado, informaron funcionarios federales el jueves. El arresto ocurrió …

City officials issued a demolition permit Thursday for the long-abandoned Damon Silos, which date back to the early 1900s. The city’s Department of Buildings approved the permit days after outlining a plan for the demolition at a community meeting at …

Illinois Democrats warn dire consequences are in store now that the U.S. House of Representatives has approved the Senate’s broad, sweeping tax legislation backed by President Donald Trump. “We’re talking about more than half a million people who are going …

A man was killed in a drive-by shooting Thursday afternoon in the South Deering neighborhood on Chicago’s Far South Side. The man, 21, was outside about 1:20 p.m. in the 9900 block of South Bensley Avenue when a vehicle pulled …

The third NASCAR Chicago Street Race revs up this weekend, once again sparking mixed feelings about the event’s economic impact and who benefits. For the past two years, the event has brought tens of thousands to downtown Chicago and was …

In the hours since a mass shooting at a River North restaurant, the family of Devonte Williamson has come across multiple videos on social media of the gunfire that killed him. “You see people running, and they are constantly shooting,” …

LOS ANGELES — Clayton Kershaw had allowed one run and two hits and thrown only 69 pitches in six innings when Dodgers manager Dave Roberts removed him from his start at Colorado on June 26. The 37-year-old left-hander — a …

On the eve of our nation’s 249th birthday, a Gallup poll finds that only 58% of Americans feel “extremely” or “very” proud of their country. This is a new low in the 25 years Gallup has been asking this question, …