"I know this decision will come with mixed feedback" from parents and staff, one superintendent said.

A plan to cap delivery fees charged to Chicago restaurants by third-party delivery companies such as Grubhub and Uber Eats at 10% of the order’s cost as long as indoor dining capacity is set at below 40% during the coronavirus pandemic moved closer to final passage on Tuesday as aldermen voted to advance the plan.

A Lake County K-9 officer is “recovering well” after a Gary Police officer shot it during an early Monday arrest in Gary.

The city is encouraging Chicagoans to support Black-owned businesses on Black Friday, the traditional kickoff to the holiday shopping season, with a website promoting more than 500 local businesses.

About two hours later, police found the van parked about 10 miles farther north in the Irving Park neighborhood. Liam was still strapped into his carseat, Hanania said.

Community Canteen Kitchen is a new restaurant embedded at Kimski in Bridgeport, and it’s feeding guests for free.

While updating Chicago’s new rules Tuesday for staying inside after returning from other states with serious pandemic outbreaks, the city’s health commissioner urged people to cancel traditional Thanksgiving plans.

Longtime 911 dispatcher Guadalupe "Lupe" Lopez, credited for walking police officers through sticky situations on the beat, loses life to COVID-19

Eighty-four newly recorded coronavirus-related deaths pushed Indiana’s pandemic toll to 5,025, including confirmed and presumed coronavirus infections, the Indiana State Department of Health said.

A Chicago woman and man are facing misdemeanor charges for a post-Election Day scuffle captured on video that erupted in a South Side park over chalk markings scribbled on pavement that included “Biden 2020” and “Black Lives Matter."

A 20-year-old man faces a charge of first-degree murder in a fatal West Side shooting from earlier this month, according to Chicago police.

A male was found dead on CTA tacks Tuesday afternoon in the Loop, according to Chicago police.

Boys and girls basketball, boys and girls bowling and boys swimming will not begin to play as scheduled until 2021.

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Bowers, the woman said, went back to his car, came back with a pistol and fired one time at her before he fled, reports said.

When scammers entered Dan and Barbara Donovan's Niles homes to burglarize it, he beat them with his grandfather's Irish shillelagh.

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Mayor Lori Lightfoot plans to spend $3.7 billion over five years on infrastructure projects across Chicago, under a plan her administration is announcing Wednesday.

I haven’t seen very many signs that haters are ready to stop hating, Dahleen Glanton writes.

The Cook County sheriff’s office is cancelling all in-person visits to the county jail starting Monday because of the recent spike in coronavirus cases, the sheriff’s office said Sunday.

Three people, including a 14-year-old girl, were injured during a shooting at a South Side dance studio Sunday night, according to Chicago police.

LACON — Marshall County has reported its fifth death related to COVID-19, while neighboring Bureau County has reached a total of 27 deaths, public health officials announced Sunday.And those deaths are accompanied by new cases that are "rising at an alarming rate" in the area served by the Bureau, Putnam & Marshall County Health Departments, according to the administrator of the agency t...

WYOMING — A long-weekend break in classes in the Stark County School District appears to have succeeded in snapping a string of COVID-19 cases that had threatened to disrupt the in-school instruction that has taken place for the past 13 weeks, according to the top administrator.After six students and three staff had earlier tested positive for the disease in instances of outside community tr...

MARRIAGESTazewell County* Ryan Bridson, 41, Maquon; Lanell Demmin, 39, Hanna City.* Zakry Cummings, 22, Bedford, Ind.; Marissa Barber, 21, Peoria.* Evan DeHart, 21, Danvers; Danielle Atherton, 20, Minier.* Brandon Horchem, 24, Pekin; Payton Colvin, 21, South Pekin.* David Hughes, 81, Washington; Priscilla Lewis, 78, Peoria.* Jerad Litherland, 35; Cydnee Martin, 32; both Tremont. ...

One of the perennial certainties of any election season is how pundits chew over the politics of losing campaigns rather than discuss the policy implications of winning campaigns.The biggest reason is the cleanliness of who’s up and who’s down, as opposed to a messy dive into the greasy nuance of what victory means to legislative sausage making.That is especially so for U.S. farm polic...

Mayor Lori Lightfoot doubles down on property tax hike in private meeting, tells Chicago aldermen not to record her

The latest numbers released by the Illinois Gaming Board show bettors in the state wagered more than $285 million on sports contests in September.

The Illinois Department of Public Health reported 10,631 newly confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 in the state Sunday, including 72 additional deaths.It marked the 10th day in a row case totals have exceeded 10,000. The 7-day rolling positivity rate in the state is 12.8%.As of Saturday night, 5,474 people in Illinois were reported ...

At-Large City Councilman Sid Ruckriegel on Sunday joined a growing field of candidates for Peoria mayor."I love Peoria and believe City Hall can do much better to improve the perception of opportunity and vision in our city," he said.Bringing together diverse perspectives will be a key theme in his campaign, he suggested – repeatedly returning to the theme that Peoria is a city in which, "wh...