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Four people, including two children, were seriously injured in a crash Sunday afternoon on Lake Shore Drive on the Near North Side, officials said.

If you are playing Nellie Forbush in Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein’s “South Pacific,” which opened Thursday night at the Drury Lane Theatre under the open-hearted direction of Victor Malana Maog, it is unwise to fall too much in love with your character. Ensign Forbush might be a spunky...

The forecast in Oakland, Calif., for Monday night is temperatures in the 50s with potential for a stray shower.

School District U46 board members did not violate state law when they met in closed session to conduct self-evaluations and discussed members’ use of social media, the Illinois Attorney General’s Office ruled this week.

A South Side man has been charged with armed robbery of a North Center cellphone store after police followed two suspects in a car and one jumped out before the driver continued to River North, where his car rammed into two other cars, Chicago police said.

With a cold rain falling and the threat of snow looming, the Cubs announced the postponement of their Sunday afternoon game two hours before Tyler Chatwood was slated to throw the first pitch at Wrigely Field.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad praised Russian weaponry on Sunday as his government celebrated victory over rebels in the town where an alleged chemical attack took place, triggering U.S. airstrikes over the weekend.

Years from now they’ll be talking about that winter day back in the spring of ’18 when the Cubs came roaring back from an eight-run deficit, scoring nine runs on three hits in the eighth inning with a hawk wind in their face and freezing rain blowing sideways.

A Pennsylvania food manufacturer is recalling 8,757 pounds of ready-to-eat salad products following an E. coli outbreak that has spread to several states and sickened dozens of people.

Tom Bussy came to a recent Lake County Health Department and Illinois Lakes Management Association forum to learn about dredging.

When East Aurora High School senior Sabrina Lusher, 18, signed up for an English class late last summer called “Survivor Literature,” there was no way she could have known what the curriculum would require of her Saturday morning.

The body of a man found floating in the Des Plaines River Friday has been identified as Sean Joy, 20, of Lockport, who had been missing for more than three weeks, according to officials.

Ryan Pace finally is enjoying his view as the NFL draft approaches.

A year after trading up to select quarterback Mitch Trubisky second overall, the Bears’ fourth-year general manager sees other quarterback-needy teams jockeying for position atop the first round. That stress is behind him.

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With a cold rain falling and a threat of snow looming, the Cubs postponed their Sunday afternoon game against the Braves. It has been rescheduled for 1:20 p.m. on May 14.

No one was hurt in a house fire Saturday north of downtown Oswego, fire officials said.

Two people were injured in a three-vehicle crash Sunday morning on the Eisenhower Expressway that caused one vehicle to roll onto CTA train tracks, authorities said.

Repeat DUI offenders make up roughly one-third of Lake County’s impaired driving arrests and court cases, according to the Lake County State’s Attorney’s Office, which has gone high-tech to address the issue.

A 24-year-old man was in critical condition Sunday morning after he was struck by a Red Line train at the Grand station in the Near North neighborhood, according to Chicago police.

The demolition of the 45-year-old Winchester House nursing home in Libertyville is one step closer to reality.

On Saturday I drove with my family to Peoria for an athletic competition. We stopped at a gas station off Interstate 55 to use the restroom. The station sold fishing tackle and snacks. It also sold bumper stickers.

Monday marks the 70th anniversary of the first Cubs game televised on WGN, a milestone that will be celebrated before and during the telecast of that night’s game against the Cardinals.

John F. Kennedy wrote a book called “Profiles in Courage,” a story about eight senators who were the personification of integrity and heroic behavior, the likes of Sens. Daniel Webster, Robert Taft and John Quincy Adams. They stood for principles, risking their futures.

Q: When was the right side mirror first used and when and why was the warning changed to “objects in mirror may be closer than they appear”? Which leads to another question: Why do they say “may” when that is how it was made?

Blue Line trains are facing delays after a car crashed on the Eisenhower Expressway and rolled onto the tracks early Sunday, authorities said.

“We kind of gave him — ‘All right, you get a mulligan. You get a do-over here.’ ”