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Some Kia, Hyundai models lack engine immobilizers, making them easy to steal. Viral TikTok videos showing how to hot wire the cars have led to a spike in thefts.

Today’s update is about an eight-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

Presenting the top 150 prospects for the 2023 NFL draft from Draft Wire's Jeff Risdon

Former U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger, who served Illinois’ 11th Congressional District and later the 16th from 2011 to early this year, is one of the Republican Party’s most significant truth tellers. Kinzinger is now a political commentator. In his blistering farewell address to Congress in December, Kinzinger said: “Where Republicans…

The jury will have a mountain of evidence to sort through. Jurors heard from about 50 witnesses over five weeks, saw piles of emails and heard a cache of secret FBI recordings that form the backbone of the feds’ case.

Three years after pot was legalized, legal aid groups have been surprised by the small number of residents seeking out help clearing marijuana arrests from their records.

Chicago’s mayor-elect is attempting to dispel the often-contentious relationship between the nation’s third-largest city and the rest of Illinois

Being better at that — finishing — has been in Illinois coach Bret Bielema’s mind all offseason. If he has had one thing driving himself and one prevailing message to his staff and players, that’s it.

Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson said he didn’t come to Springfield to “dictate” what Chicago needs when it comes to public safety dollars. “How do I call myself a collaborator and then I’m dictating?” Johnson asked reporters. “These are ongoing conversations.”

Programs that serve thousands of students are at risk of losing funding because of a state mixup. Lawmakers should, make sure programs, and kids, don’t lose out.

Parent company Meta has settled a data privacy lawsuit involving Cambridge Analytica for $750 million. Anyone who’s used Facebook in the past 16 years can file a claim.