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Thirty Illinois House Democrats have urged the City Council to spike Mayor Brandon Johnson’s proposal to tax online sports betting for fear that it would invite other municipalities to do the same, drive online sports betting underground and send state …

Sean Morrison, the sole Republican on the Cook County Board of Commissioners, will not seek reelection, he announced in a message Thursday evening. Morrison stepped down as the chair of the Cook County GOP in April, saying it was “time …

The clock ticked toward the two-minute warning, the air heavy with snowfall and the nerves of a sold-out Soldier Field. The Bears were losing by a field goal with the ball at the Giants’ 46 two weeks ago. Their best …

Mayor Brandon Johnson said Thursday that an “absolute failure” of the criminal justice and mental health systems allowed a “seriously disturbed” man with a history of dozens of felony charges to douse a woman with gasoline, authorities say, and light …

A Texas man has been convicted of federal charges after he defrauded 1,000 investors out of $14 million with a crypto currency scam, according to court documents. Robert Dunlap, 54, was convicted Monday by a Chicago jury on two counts …

Donations have poured in to help a South Deering family relocate to a new home after the mother and her 9-year-old son were attacked on the Far South Side Monday afternoon. Chicago police on Monday said a group of attackers …

The Chicago Plan Commission had a busy meeting Thursday, approving several long-awaited projects vying for a green light that moves them closer to breaking ground. DePaul University received the first city approval needed to build a $42 million practice facility …

All lanes of I-94 near Northbrook were closed Thursday after a crash caused live wires to dangle over the highway, according to Illinois State Police. Around 3:24 p.m., state police arrived on scene to divert traffic off the highway on …

The Cook County Board of Review is reopening the property tax appeals window in townships that have closed it for the 2025 appeal season. The Board typically gives taxpayers in townships a 30-day filing window to appeal assessed property values …

These “are not ordinary times at the Everett McKinley Dirksen United States Courthouse” in Chicago’s Loop. U.S. Magistrate Judge Gabriel Fuentes made that point Thursday, as he closed the book on the last of five now-dismissed prosecutions tied to September …

Federal officials announced earlier this month that a gunman had been arrested for firing at U.S. Border Patrol agents amid chaotic protests in Little Village earlier this month, as the agency’s aggressive Chicago area campaign was drawing to a close. …

Connor Bedard received kindness from referees Tuesday and hostility from them Thursday. In his second game as an unofficial Blackhawks alternate captain, Bedard was called for an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty that played a pivotal role in a 3-2 loss to …

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Rey was just doing his job — cleaning up a yard in Rogers Park at the end of October — when a group of masked men, wielding weapons, appeared out of nowhere and dragged him away. News spread quickly. “I …

Amid the #MeToo era, it might seem like a career killer to testify under immunity at ex-Illinois House Speaker Michael J. Madigan’s federal corruption trial about a scheme to get an alleged sexual harasser a paycheck after he was fired …

Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton has repeatedly vowed she won’t accept “a single dime” of corporate PAC money for her U.S. Senate campaign. But Stratton has a history of taking in corporate PAC and direct corporate contributions into her state campaign …

President Donald Trump’s administration is moving to slash federal protections for the nation’s wetlands and streams, potentially leaving millions of acres of habitat in Illinois and the Midwest vulnerable to being dug up, filled in or paved over. At the …

Suburban communities in Illinois are failing to meet the requirements set out for them in a 22-year-old law aimed at increasing the state’s affordable housing supply. The Illinois General Assembly passed the Affordable Housing Planning and Appeal Act in 2003 …

From the 67-foot-tall Norway spruce lit to perfection in Millennium Park to a dizzying number of “Christmas Carol” variations, Chicago’s most festive season has arrived. With so much happening, we have rounded up the best Chicago has to offer this …

I remember it well. It was Oct. 7, 2016, a Friday. That afternoon The Washington Post dropped a bombshell, the perfect October surprise, just a month before the presidential election. Earlier in the week, Hillary Clinton had been hammering Donald …