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A woman has died after a car she was in rear-ended a semitruck late Sunday in Des Plaines. Nazly Rodriguez-Munoz was a passenger in a Toyota Prius driven by a 28-year-old Des Plaines woman who was eastbound on Algonquin Road …

Antonio McDowell walked into a Chicago police station in 1997 the victim of a shooting. He instead ended up charged and convicted of murder. On Monday, 28 years later, he was finally free again. “This is a defining moment,” McDowell, …

Community members gathered at Daley Plaza to launch Pride Month Monday, as Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson joined with Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, County Board Commissioner Kevin Morrison, and other elected officials for the fifth annual raising of the …

Case closed. For the past six years, Jeff Mauro has been on the hunt to track down four framed jerseys that went missing since his Pork & Mindy’s sandwich shops were shuttered in a Chapter 7 bankruptcy filing in 2019. …

CTA, Metra and Pace said Monday they would soon be planning cuts in their 2026 budgets, after state legislators missed their first big deadline to fund public transit with the close of the spring legislative session Saturday — inching the …

The U.S. Department of Energy cut funding for two dozen clean energy projects across the U.S., including a $170 million grant for Chicago-based food manufacturer Kraft Heinz at 10 U.S. plants, including one in Champaign. The cuts also include a …

Ariel Atkins has quietly put together an excellent career as a complementary piece to star teammates. The Sky want her to step into a spotlight of her own. They traded the No. 3 overall pick to the Mystics for Atkins …

BOULDER, Colo. — Four additional victims have been identified in the Boulder attack in which a man is accused of throwing Molotov cocktails into a group that had gathered to bring attention to Israeli hostages in Gaza, authorities said Monday, …

Several ramps on the Kennedy Expressway will be closing over the next two weeks, the Illinois Department of Transportation announced Monday. The outbound Kennedy ramp to North Avenue will close for two weeks starting Thursday, IDOT said. The ramp from …

Por primera vez en su historia, la Secundaria Magnet Whitney M. Young tuvo 23 estudiantes que lograron puntuaciones perfectas en el ACT. “Es un logro fenomenal”, dijo el director Rickey Harris. “Estamos muy orgullosos de ellos”. La Voz Chicago WhatsApp …

SPRINGFIELD — Después de meses de negociación durante una de las temporadas presupuestarias más difíciles de Illinois en años, los legisladores estatales presentaron el viernes un proyecto de ley de gastos de $55.2 mil millones que, según los líderes demócratas, …

El Departamento de Seguridad Nacional (DHS) ha publicado una lista de “jurisdicciones santuario” que incluye siete ciudades y 96 condados en Illinois que la administración de Trump considera que obstruyen la realización de la inmigración, mientras intenta aumentar la presión …

Fans are clamoring for the White Sox to call up their second-ranked prospect, Kyle Teel, but with Edgar Quero and Korey Lee on the major-league roster, there wouldn’t be room for him to get regular time at catcher. The Sox …

The Chicago Peregrine Program announced Wednesday that four peregrine falcon chicks who lived on a University of Illinois Chicago building suddenly died. The organization could not confirm the cause of death, but one possibility could be bird flu. “Today, be …

HOUSTON — Jonathan Joss, a voice actor best known for his work on the animated television series “King of the Hill,” was fatally shot near his Texas home, authorities said Monday. Police were dispatched to a home in south San …

Crosetti Brand, on trial for allegedly killing the 11-year-old son of his former partner, began his defense Monday by calling himself to testify. Brand spent about four hours on the stand Monday afternoon, at first detailing for jurors his budding …