Local bassist Tony “Chicago” Russell was awarded a Creative Arts Emmy Award for outstanding music direction at the ceremony, ...

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A day after activist and Illinois native Charlie Kirk was fatally shot at a Utah campus event, students say they want a ...

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Mayor Brandon Johnson says united local opposition to a federal intervention led the president to "back down." ...

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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers were conducting “targeted law enforcement activity” in Franklin Park when ...

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The federal government stopped publishing comprehensive data in January after President Donald Trump took office, but ...

Lawsuits targeting Watts, who ran a corrupt public housing unit and was sent to federal prison for shaking down an FBI ...