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Former President George W. Bush said Wednesday that his mother, Barbara Bush, didn't fear death because she believed in an afterlife and that she would be "wonderfully received in the arms of a loving God."Barbara Bush, who died Tuesday at age 92 at her home in Houston, was "warm and wonderful,...

Holy architecture, Batman! Two developers want to build a skyscraper next to Tribune Tower that would be Chicago’s second-tallest building and more than three times taller than the neo-Gothic landmark? As one of the developers acknowledges, the flaring walls of the skyscraper’s top would resemble...

A man who tried to hang himself in a Chicago police lockup, prompting his family to accuse officers of wrongfully detaining him, died Wednesday morning, according to his longtime girlfriend.

It was a simple question: “Mr. E., do you have a girlfriend?”

But Elijah Eiler, a teacher at the James Otis World Language Academy in Chicago, wanted to tread carefully as a gay teacher. It was the beginning of the school year, and Eiler didn’t know the seventh-grader well.

“No,” Eiler recalled...

Cuba's National Assembly cleared the way for the end of Castro rule on Wednesday, naming longtime Communist Party figure Miguel Díaz-Canel as the sole candidate for head of state.

A white supervisor in the Cook County Adult Probation Department has filed a federal lawsuit claiming he was wrongly dismissed last year, while numerous black employees in the department have received little or no discipline for alleged misconduct.

Former presidential candidate and Florida governor Jeb Bush opened his remarks to an audience of about 800 people Wednesday talking about his mother, Barbara, who died on Tuesday.”

Former presidential candidate and Florida governor Jeb Bush opened his remarks to an audience of about 800 people Wednesday talking about his mother, Barbara, who died on Tuesday.”

The Chicago Transit Authority board on Wednesday approved a $1.5 million settlement for the family of a 19-month-old girl who was fatally struck by a bus in May 2014.

In a 2015 sketch aired on Comedy Central’s “Inside Amy Schumer,” the one called “New Body,” Schumer played a woman shopping for a wardrobe for the body she’s always wanted. The clothing store clerk, thin and deadpan, is the perfect foil for Schumer’s chipper, play-along reactions. With those two...

The Cuban government on Wednesday selected 57-year-old First Vice President Miguel Mario Diaz-Canel Bermudez as the sole candidate to succeed President Raul Castro in a transition aimed at ensuring that the country's single-party system outlasts the aging revolutionaries who created it.The certain...

Former Bears return man Devin Hester and running back Matt Forte will sign one-day contracts Monday at Halas Hall so they can retire as members of the Bears.

U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, who is used to being surrounded by diplomats representing murderous regimes, has found out the most dangerous place for her to be: between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.

After Ben Zobrist was scratched from the top of the lineup Tuesday night because of lower-back stiffness, Cubs manager Joe Maddon wasn’t sure about the severity of the injury to his valuable veteran.

A Chicago Public Schools overhaul of special education policies in 2016 created systemwide problems that delayed and denied services to students, according to an Illinois State Board of Education investigation into controversial changes enacted amid a district budget crisis.

An island-wide blackout hit Puerto Rico on Wednesday as the U.S. territory struggles to repair an increasingly unstable power grid nearly seven months after Hurricane Maria. Officials said an excavator accidentally downed a transmission line.Officials said it could take 24 to 36 hours to fully...

Tarik Cohen remembers the first time he saw Kevin White in person on the football field last year during Bears offseason seven-on-seven drills.

A century after airplanes first took to the skies, the concept of flying confounds. Even though air travel is routine, leaving earth to float in an engine-powered tube still feels — at some level, to most commercial air passengers — mysterious or scary.

Despite decades of pushing to create a welcoming coffeehouse culture in the U.S., Starbucks has left many Americans behind. McDonald's may be ready to pick up the pieces.

Authorities say a Des Plaines woman tried to hire someone via the “dark web” to kill the wife of a man with whom she had an affair, DuPage County prosecutors said Wednesday.

An unfortunately situated train station in Cary will be replaced by a new $2.4 million building under an agreement approved by the Metra board Wednesday.

If you want to see “mayochup” — a pre-mixed mayonnaise-ketchup product made by Kraft Heinz — on store shelves, you are clearly not alone.

What once was trash is now treasure in the Fulton Market district, where a waste hauler is looking to sell 2.5 acres of gritty land now believed to be worth tens of millions of dollars.

A lawyer for former U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock says prosecutors are aiming to be the first to imprison a former member of Congress over ambiguous rules the U.S. House set for itself.

A proposal to ban tackle football in Illinois for kids under age 12 is effectively dead for now.