Aspira Inc. of Illinois got $27 million from the state to build a modern school just 11 years ago. Now the nonprofit has declared bankruptcy and wants to sell the building for $11 million — and pocket...

The owners of multiple South Side funeral homes are under a microscope after state officials discovered they had been mismanaging human remains. La...

While the company is on the hook for about $400 million in costs over the next two years to complete its permanent complex at 777 W. Chicago Ave., Bally’s still isn’t breaking even at its temporary ca...

The macabre discovery of dozens of unrefrigerated, decomposing bodies at a South Side funeral home is prompting legislative calls for tighter government regulation of an industry that has operated lar...

Defense attorney Kevin Riach alleges that just four days after Alex Pretti was shot and killed by federal agents, that Homeland Security Investigations launched Operation Puppet Master. The agency cou...

Aspira Inc. of Illinois got $27 million from the state to build a modern school just 11 years ago. Now the nonprofit has declared bankruptcy and wants to sell the building for $11 million — and pocket...

There’s very little information online about Gregory Bovino’s background, his experience, or his rise to overnight prominence. So our team went digging – to his hometown in North Carolina, and to Cali...

Ten months after Congress voted to rescind federal funds for public media, the former PBS affiliate at Eastern Illinois University will cease its televised broadcasting service today, May 15. For more than 40 years, WEIU has served eastern Illinois as a public television and radio station and a training ground for student journalists at Eastern Illinois University.

Mr. Sianis was happy to see the "Curse of the Billy Goat" his uncle placed on the Cubs broken when the team won the World Series in 2016.

On Tuesday, Judge Donald Suriano handed down a not guilty verdict after finding the evidence in the 2024 case only amounted to “suspicion of intoxication.”

The three siblings had fended for themselves for nearly four weeks on the Southwest Side. Isabel Conde, 27, couldn’t find adults in their lives to take them in. So she did it herself.

Βαθιά θλίψη έχει προκαλέσει στην ομογένεια του Σικάγο ο θάνατος του 38χρονου αστυνομικού John Bartholomew, ο οποίος έπεσε νεκρός από τα πυρά του 26χρονου Alfonso Talley. Το αιματηρό περιστατικό σημειώ...

Judge Rubén Castillo, chair of the Illinois Accountability Commission, made the call to action during his remarks at the commission's final hearing Tuesday. The commission was tasked with examining th...

15 South American migrants and asylum seekers deported from the U.S. to the DRC are now living in uncertainty in a country an with ongoing armed conflict, where they have no ties.

The news from the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals comes less than three weeks after oral argument and will likely prompt a bid by Madigan to the U.S. Supreme Court.

How elderly Americans amassed disproportionate wealth and power

Alphanso Talley, 26, who was released on parole early this year for a 2023 aggravated battery to a peace officer conviction, was charged with murder, attempted murder and a slew of additional charges,...

Alphanso Talley, 26, who was released on parole early this year for a 2023 aggravated battery to a peace officer conviction, was charged with murder, attempted murder and a slew of additional charges,...

More than 80 independent bookstores will participate in the annual Chicagoland Bookstore Crawl on Independent Bookstore Day. Stores will offer special discounts and planned activities during the crawl...

In addition to being the most segregated big city in America, Chicago may also be the worst big city for Black economic mobility.

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s anemic fundraising places him third among better-known potential mayoral challengers, and barely ahead of a few lesser-known candidates.

While communities elsewhere have been shielded from the costs of ICE facilities, the western suburb was stuck with bills for nearly $400,000. The costs continue as Broadview preps its new budget.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development denied the Chicago Housing Authority's request for conflict waivers for Burnett, marking the end of a seven-month stalemate with the federal agency...

The indictment unsealed Wednesday came after a long federal probe. But King’s lawyer said the case was “absurd” and predicted his client would be vindicated in court.

Protesters in Slovakia's capital and elsewhere in the country have denounced a plan by populist Prime Minister Robert Fico to scrap mail voting for Slovaks living abroad.

The federal court's ruling ordering a retrial for members of the "ComEd Four" could have implications in Madigan's appeal.

The indictment unsealed Wednesday came after a long federal probe. But King’s lawyer said the case was “absurd” and predicted he would be vindicated in court.

Grand jury subpoenas obtained by WBEZ show U.S. prosecutors sought many records from Urban Prep Academies related to its ex-CEO Tim King.

A former staffer of Rep. Eric Swalwell, a leading Democratic candidate for California governor, says that the congressman raped her when she was heavily intoxicated, an allegation Swalwell strongly de...