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The now-retired Chicago cop was named in two legal cases that cost the city more than $5 million. He gave $5,000 to the Vallas campaign.

In hindsight, government oversight of lenders was lax, mayoral hopeful says, but many small businesses denied by traditional banks got the help they needed.

A wind chill advisory is in effect for the Chicago area from 11 p.m. Thursday until 10 a.m. Friday, the weather service said.

The new North Austin Center includes Chicago’s largest turf field, 15 fields and courts for year-round camps, leagues and tournaments, plus an eSports lab — all designed to close the opportunity gap in youth sports.

Noah Appelbaum was freezing on a bitterly cold evening as he stood waiting at a Chicago bus stop in January. He was headed to work and didn’t want to be late.

The work of Homeland Security Investigations in Arizona, dubbed Operation Swipe Left, led to Norris “Nick” Stauffer. It also resulted in criminal charges against more than a dozen people elsewhere — including at least two with political ties — amid allegations of livestreamed abuse, kidnapping…

Chicago’s grant was the biggest one in a pool of $315 million distributed nationwide. It will provide over 700 units of permanent supportive housing, as well as 50 units of short-term housing.

A Chicago woman is accused of keeping her mother’s dead body in a freezer for nearly two years while living in a nearby apartment

Some visitors traveled thousands of miles to celebrate the holiday in the quaint town of 25,000 people in the far northwest suburbs of Chicago. Woodstock has become a yearly destination for “Groundhog Day” fans to relive the time-loop that Bill Murray’s character Phil Connors found himself in.