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CHICAGO — Late last month, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said she “fully expects” to return a controversial statue of Christopher Columbus to its former pedestal in Grant Park.

Cook County prosecutors’ new effort to reduce sentences for some longtime inmates — hailed by State’s Attorney Kim Foxx and other reform advocates as a way to right the wrongs of the tough-on-crime era — will have an uphill climb before some judges, if its first week in court is…

When our nation’s first female secretary of state met with the Chicago Tribune Editorial Board in the 1990s, her regal presence and world-class expertise quickly relaxed into a memorable chat — and a surprising question:

The Chicago Teachers Union is suing a former top adviser to Mayor Lori Lightfoot and a “Jane Doe” over their alleged interference in the May election of union officers.

CHICAGO — The realistic painting in vivid colors by Adolfo Davis shows two sides of the same street, one bathed in sunlight with a college and an art center and the word “choices” written along the curb. On the other, a prison, a Chicago police surveillance camera, crime scene tape,…

A black-and-white photograph from August 1980 shows 12-year-old Walter Polovchak, small and skinny with hair falling onto his forehead, flanked by adults as he walked into a courthouse for a custody hearing.

CHICAGO – Staunchly defending her office’s handing of the Jussie Smollett case, Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx said in an exclusive interview with the Tribune late Thursday that the 150-day jail sentence handed down by a judge could be questioned as “revenge” against the actor rather than justice.

CHICAGO — Kokomo was nothing like the small village Ezra Hendrickson emigrated from when he was 13.