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This year’s State of the Union address was in line with past ones: a tedious and bloated exercise in Washington pageantry that ate up a lot of cable news time despite its almost complete irrelevance to how Americans will actually be governed. But those are not the real problems. The real problem...

Hostess Brands Inc., feeling flush after last month's tax overhaul, will offer bonuses to workers -- including free snacks.

A 74-year-old Park City man and a 50-year-old Oswego man were taken into custody this week by Lake County Sheriff's deputies and federal officials on warrants for sex charges in two separate incidents, both involving minors.

Every day there are 174 drug overdose deaths in the United States. Of that number, more than 63 percent are caused by opioids and heroin , Elgin police detective Anthony Rigano told an Elgin audience Tuesday night.

Barrington officials are suing a Canadian trucking company over the cleanup of a chemical spill last year, alleging firefighters unwittingly handled a hazardous chemical that damaged their equipment after being told the material was vegetable oil.

Northwestern’s sixth Breaststroke 4 Breast Cancer event was especially meaningful for Wildcats basketball player Charlie Hall.

A 16-year-old boy was critically hurt and two men were wounded in a drive-by shooting Wednesday morning outside a West Side gas station in the Homan Square neighborhood, according to Chicago police.

Illinois is down to one quarterback currently enrolled on scholarship — Cam Thomas, who will be a sophomore next fall — after the departures from the program this month of Jeff George Jr. and Chayce Crouch.

The city is threatening to sue the owner of a longtime single-room occupancy men’s hotel on Chicago’s North Side after residents this week were handed eviction notices.

The Chicago-area woman who has earned national notoriety as a stowaway for sneaking onto jets without a ticket grew agitated Wednesday in court following her arrest for the second time in two weeks.

A Cook County Circuit judge denied ex-Calumet School District 132 board president Patricia Carr request for a swift return to her former office.

Nikola Mirotic’s time in Chicago certainly has been eventful.

From the moment the Bulls maneuvered to acquire him in the 2011 draft to the time until he came over from Spain in 2014 to now – with him almost being dealt to the Pelicans this week – there has been intrigue and drama.

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An Oswego man is facing four first-degree murder charges in connection with a March 10, 2017, shooting in Aurora that claimed the lives of two men and seriously injured a third.

A convicted felon who attempted to kidnap a 12-year-old girl 10 years ago was sentenced Tuesday to 12 years in prison for sexually assaulting a woman while she slept in 2016.

Three Illinois Republicans in Congress were on a train that hit a garbage truck on the way to a legislative retreat in West Virginia on Wednesday, but none of the lawmakers were hurt.

He was legally dead but dead men don't breathe. Or follow you with their eyes. Or squeeze their wives's hands.

A chartered train carrying dozens of GOP lawmakers to a Republican policy retreat in West Virginia struck a garbage truck in a rural Virginia town on Wednesday. No lawmakers or aides were reported injured, but the White House said one person was killed and another was seriously hurt.

The driver of a semitractor-trailer was killed Tuesday after his 2013 Peterbilt truck rolled over a concrete barrier on the right shoulder of the ramp at Interstate 355 that leads to eastbound Interstate 80 in New Lenox , according to Illinois State Police.

Students, parents and supporters of the Roosevelt College and Career Academy rallied Tuesday against the possible closing of the historic school.

Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner used his State of the State speech on Wednesday to address controversies that have been brewing in his administration and at the Capitol, striking a largely bipartisan note in the midst of a challenging re-election campaign.

The FBI said Wednesday it has "grave concerns" about the accuracy of a classified memo on the Russia investigation that President Donald Trump wants to release to the public. It was the first time the bureau has weighed in publicly on an issue that has openly divided the Justice Department and...

A chartered train carrying dozens of GOP lawmakers to a Republican policy retreat in West Virginia struck a garbage truck in a rural Virginia town on Wednesday. No lawmakers or aides were reported injured, but the White House said one person was killed and another was seriously injured.

An Aurora man is headed to prison for sexually assaulting a child he knew.

South Carolina GOP Rep. Trey Gowdy says he will not run for re-election and will "instead be returning to the judicial system."

Oscar Gamble, who spent the most productive of his 17 major-league seasons with the White Sox’s “South Side Hitmen,” died Wednesday at 68, his agent confirmed to MLB.com.