Cook County Circuit Court Judge Kathaleen Lanahan was host for the ceremony, complete with honorariums and lunchtime treats. Since 1998, the Bridgeview Problem-Solving Courts have been part of the ...

A Chicago man faces multiple felonies in connection with properties being defaced on the city’s West Side. Philip Dominguez, 38, a resident of the 2400 block of South Springfield Avenue, faces five ...

Cook County is putting more resources behind the Public Defender Immigration Unit, doubling its small staff at the start of 2026 and setting the goal of tripling it by 2027. Since 2021, the unit has ...

The Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo (C2E2) came to McCormick Place in Chicago for a much anticipated second weekend of April. A record 100,000 fans attended C2E2 in which cosplay characters posed ...

Being diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease didn’t come as a shock to Riverside resident PJ Duling. “I was having tremor symptoms for about a year, and in that year three of my siblings were diagnosed ...

Evanston native Alex Moore went from a swamp to a jungle. Moore, communications director for 9th District Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, D-Evanston, is a contestant on the upcoming season of “Survivor, ...

On Jan. 16, 1919, the 65th United States Congress ratified the 18th amendment, prohibiting the manufacture, sale and transportation of intoxicating beverages. A year later, Prohibition began and gave ...

The Plano-based Fox Valley YMCA has announced plans for a $16 million facility serving Oswego, Yorkville and eastern Kendall County. A 26-acre site at the southeast corner of Galena Road and ...

Two people were killed in accidents on the Edens Expressway. A three-unit fatal crash occurred at 12:30 p.m. Monday on southbound Interstate 94 at Dundee Road in Northbrook. One person involved in the ...

Agencies serving victims of domestic violence say they will continue to push for passage of state legislation that would get guns out of the hands of abusers. Representatives of Legal Aid Society, ...

A Romeoville man died from injuries sustained Saturday morning in an accident on Interstate 55. Illinois State Police said the driver of a Honda Civic struck a Subaru SUV shortly before 1:30 a.m.

A bronze statue of Northern Illinois University’s nationally-known Siberian Husky mascot now has a permanent home outside Huskie Stadium. Diesel, who patrolled NIU football sidelines for nine years, ...