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Cook County sheriff’s police told Illinois legislators Thursday that “manpower” issues are the main reason why the revoked cards are still in the hands of potentially dangerous people.

Servando Hamros’s 6-year-old daughter reportedly ran away from the shooting while FaceTiming her family shouting, “Daddy’s shot”

Chrystal Martin, 28, was arrested Wednesday in Lyons after she was identified as a participant in the Jan. 4 murder of Timothy Vallianatos, Chicago police said.

CHICAGO — Less than a month after a gunman climbed a fire escape and positioned himself on a rooftop to fire rifle rounds into a mass of Independence Day paradegoers below in Highland Park, Chicago officials said they are confident they can keep one of the city’s largest festivals safe…

The man accused of opening fire on a July Fourth parade in suburban Chicago has been indicted on 21 first-degree murder counts, 48 counts of attempted murder and 48 counts of aggravated battery,

Two people were fatally shot about five minutes apart on the South and Near West Sides.

The merger under nonprofit ownership marks the retirement of the Herald’s longtime owner, Bruce Sagan, a leading figure in Chicago publishing.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s bid to keep the Bears in Chicago by topping Soldier Field with a dome has the feel of desperation. It’s like the old hook-and-ladder play. Your team is 90 yards away from a touchdown with just a few seconds on the clock, and tries to lateral the…

As the third Chicago Police Department officer to commit suicide in less than a month was laid to rest this past weekend, arguments and anger over the city’s overtaxed police force took on a new sense of urgency.

IT'S been two and a half years since the pandemic forced Newcastle jazz guitar master Adam Miller to pack up his six-strings, pedals and amps along with plans to return to the US full-time. Finally next week Miller will touch down on American soil to play his first shows there…

The sale bodes well for the Thompson Center, but also for a downtown that’s still staggering from the pandemic and needs all the help, energy — and new office workers — it can get.