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U.S. District Judge Robert Dow Jr. has asked lawyers in a Chicago gun-rights suit to weigh in on whether Justice Clarence Thomas’s majority opinion affects the city’s ban.

Predictable tale wins us over with breezy style and some familiar faces.

The 14-year-old boy was killed and the 13-year-old boy wounded in Bronzeville on the South Side.

Crashes involving Amtrak trains appear rare. But the reality, especially west of Chicago, is that Amtrak trains themselves are infrequent. They run just three or four times a day to most Midwestern destinations. The great long-distance trains that head out west from Chicago — they have names like the Empire…

R. Kelly could be in his 80s before the singer is free again, based on a 30-year prison term imposed this week by a New York federal judge for sexually abusing young fans

The 29-year-old was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, police said.

CHICAGO — The Chicago Bulls spent the first night of free agency — which began at 5 p.m. Thursday — waiting on their biggest offseason question mark.

CHICAGO — The Chicago Bulls spent the first night of free agency — which began at 5 p.m. Thursday — waiting on their biggest offseason question mark.

Day 1 of NBA free agency was hijacked by Kevin Durant’s desire to be traded out of Brooklyn, and while the Bulls did their due diligence, the top priority remained to keep LaVine in Chicago.

Over the past three years, Julie Contreras, an immigration and humanitarian activist from the Waukegan area, has visited the makeshift tent encampments filled with asylum-seekers on the southwestern border that were erected after the Trump administration enacted the “Remain in Mexico” program in 2019.

The former Bears quarterback isn't a fan of the team potentially moving out of Chicago and into the suburbs.