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Supporters of doing away with so-called intensive probation units say it was a “gotcha” system that didn’t reduce crime. Others say it helped get guns and drugs off the streets.

CHICAGO — Over a 48-hour period two weekends ago, three shootings erupted within a mile of one another in Chicago’s downtown area, leaving two people dead. During that same time, some 17 other people were shot around the city, most of them in neighborhoods where a higher level of violence…

CHICAGO — No one knew Chicago like Mike Royko, and no one spread the gospel of the Cubs like the late Chicago Tribune columnist.

One night during the 2020 season, Chicago Cubs veteran outfielder Jason Heyward took catcher Willson Contreras out to dinner.

An Illinois law bans schools from fining students, so local police are doing it for them

The reversal comes after Abbott's stunt backfired badly among conservatives

CHICAGO — A coalition of news organizations convened by the Chicago Tribune is seeking to block the Chicago Park District’s efforts to seal a pending lawsuit alleging Mayor Lori Lightfoot yelled obscenities at and defamed a Park District attorney during a call about a controversial Christopher Columbus statue.

Oil executive was murdered with his wife while investigating corruption in Brazil

CHICAGO — When a group of Democratic state senators joined Republicans in rejecting two of Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s nominees to the Illinois Prisoner Review Board last month, it became clear that crime has become such a big issue in this year’s elections it is even driving some divisions within the…