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08/09/2022

Queen Elizabeth II, Britain's longest-reigning monarch and a rock of stability across much of a turbulent century, has died. She was 96. Buckingham Palace made the announcement in a statement.

02/09/2022

Bears president and CEO Ted Phillips plans to retire in late February after spending 40 seasons with the franchise. The 65-year-old has worked in his present role since 1999.

31/08/2022

The U.S. on Wednesday authorized its first update to COVID-19 vaccines, booster doses that target today's most common omicron strain. Shots could begin within days.

26/08/2022

Fourteen of the 15 boxes recovered from former President Donald Trump's Florida estate early this year contained documents with classification markings, including at the top secret level, according to an FBI affidavit released Friday explaining the justification for this month's search of the proper...

25/08/2022

A judge on Thursday ordered the Justice Department to make public a redacted version of the affidavit it relied on when federal agents searched the Florida estate of former President Donald Trump to look for classified documents.

03/08/2022

The 21-year-old Highwood man accused of carrying out a mass shooting at the Highland Park Fourth of July parade pleaded not guilty to the 117 criminal charges against him during a hearing at the Waukegan courthouse Wednesday morning.

31/07/2022

Seven are dead, including five children, following a fiery head-on crash on westbound I-90 near Hampshire early Sunday morning after one of the drivers traveled the wrong way, Illinois State Police said.

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21/07/2022

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President Joe Biden tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday, underscoring the persistence of the highly contagious virus as new variants challenge the nation's efforts to resume normalcy after two and a half years of pandemic disruptions.

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19/07/2022

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A 27-year-old Elgin man is facing attempted murder charges stemming from a shooting that injured two men in Huntley early Monday morning.

14/07/2022

Ivana Trump, who formed half of a publicity power couple in the 1980s as the first wife of former President Donald Trump and mother of his oldest children, has died in New York City, her family announced Thursday. She was 73.

08/07/2022

President Joe Biden signed an executive order Friday to protect access to abortion as he faced mounting pressure from fellow Democrats to be more forceful on the subject after the Supreme Court ended a constitutional right to the procedure two weeks ago.

07/07/2022

"We thank Alex for his tireless dedication to the Blackhawks organization over the last five seasons and wish him the best in Ottawa," said General Manager Kyle Davidson.

06/07/2022

The 21-year-old Highwood man accused of carrying out a mass shooting during the Highland Park Independence Day parade Monday will be held in Lake County jail without bail, a judge ordered Wednesday morning.

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30/06/2022

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UCLA and Southern California are planning to leave the Pac-12 for the Big Ten Conference in a seismic change that could lead to another major realignment of college sports.

30/06/2022

President Joe Biden said Thursday that he would support an exception to the Senate filibuster to protect access to abortion after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

29/06/2022

R&B star R. Kelly was sentenced to 30 years in prison Wednesday for using his superstardom to subject young fans -- some just children -- to systematic s*xual abuse.

23/06/2022

The justices' 6-3 decision is expected to ultimately allow more people to legally carry guns on the streets of the nation's largest cities -- including New York, Los Angeles and Boston -- and elsewhere.

Former state Sen. Thomas Cullerton has been sentenced to 12 months and one day in federal prison on his conviction for e...
21/06/2022

Former state Sen. Thomas Cullerton has been sentenced to 12 months and one day in federal prison on his conviction for embezzling close to a quarter of a million dollars from the Teamsters union.

Former state Sen. Thomas Cullerton was sentenced Tuesday to 12 months and one day in federal prison on his conviction for embezzling close to a quarter of a million dollars from the Teamsters union. "You broke the trust of the people who elected you," U.S. District Court Judge Robert Gettleman told....

Law enforcement authorities had enough officers on the scene of the Uvalde school massacre to have stopped the gunman th...
21/06/2022

Law enforcement authorities had enough officers on the scene of the Uvalde school massacre to have stopped the gunman three minutes after he entered the building, the Texas public safety chief testified Tuesday, pronouncing the police response an "abject failure."

15/06/2022

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday intensified its drive to tame high inflation by raising its key interest rate by three-quarters of a point -- its largest hike in nearly three decades -- and signaling more large rate increases to come that would raise the risk of another recession.

14/06/2022

A Round Lake Beach man drowned his three children at his home before fleeing and leading police on a chase that ended in a crash off an Interstate 80 bridge in Joliet, authorities said Tuesday afternoon.

09/06/2022

The American Civil Liberties Union will ask a federal judge to prevent Aurora from stopping the Aurora Pride parade that was to be held this weekend.

02/06/2022

A male Chicagoan is Illinois' first presumed case of monkeypox, officials say. He is isolating at home and in good condition.

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01/06/2022

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A jury on Wednesday awarded Johnny Depp $10.35 million in his libel lawsuit against ex-wife Amber Heard.

26/05/2022

Ray Liotta, the actor best known for playing mobster Henry Hill in "Goodfellas" and baseball player Shoeless Joe Jackson in "Field of Dreams," has died. He was 67.

12/05/2022

Some lanes of Route 53 near Palatine and Arlington Heights have reopened as police continue to investigate what caused a dump truck to turn over Thursday morning near Rand Road.

12/05/2022

An 18-year-old Wauconda man died in a one-vehicle crash near Wauconda Wednesday night, the Lake County Sheriff's Office said Thursday morning.

11/05/2022

Advocate Aurora Health announced a major merger Wednesday with North Carolina-based Atrium Health that will super-size its system.

25/04/2022

Billionaire Elon Musk has reached an agreement to acquire Twitter for approximately $44 billion, the company said.

19/04/2022

Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Tuesday announced he would end a mask mandate on public transit and at airports following a federal judge's decision Monday that overturned the government's plan to keep restrictions in place until May 3.

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