Arnold Day was convicted and sentenced to 60 years in prison in 1992 based on confessions coerced by Chicago police detectives trained by Jon Burge, a disgraced Chicago police commander, according to ...

Members of Chicago’s Board of Education are calling on state lawmakers to step up funding for Chicago Public Schools as the ...

Any verdict or settlement in the case would be paid by Chicago taxpayers, who will also foot the bill to defend Ald. Jim ...

On May 9, one of the herd's females gave birth to a calf, the first baby bison born on tallgrass prairie in the county in 200 ...

Chief Procurement Officer Sharla Roberts told the Chicago City Council’s Public Safety Committee that officials are still weighing the bids submitted by nine firms, including one by SoundThinking, the ...

The road that helped stitch the nation together with automobile travel turns 100 this year. As the starting point for Route ...

Experts expressed concern that an emphasis on overprescribing, specifically, is somewhat unbalanced given the population of people who lack access to care for serious mental health conditions.

President Donald Trump directed the Commerce Department to explore whether the broadband funding could be withheld from ...

Two firefighters from Chicago and Addison also received the Medal of Honor, the highest award given to a firefighter in the ...

When households lose their benefits, they spend less at the grocery store, and the already-thin profit margins of independent ...

Renewed debate around a state law dealing with pretrial release. And making the case that Chicago’s violence prevention efforts could serve as a model to end all global violence.

Plans to extend the CTA Red Line to the Far South Side of Chicago are finally on track. The Red Line extension project broke ...