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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said the city will not tolerate vigilantism after groups of mostly white men patrolled the streets of Bridgeport on Wednesday night in response to a nearby city protest.

The popular tourist destination on Lake Michigan will rejoin public life in phases.

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul joined a coalition of state legal officers in urging Congress to give them broader authority to investigate “unconstitutional policing,” his office said Thursday.

Testing for the new coronavirus is now available in Illinois to anyone who wants it -- regardless of symptoms -- at nearly a dozen state-run testing sites, state public health officials said Thursday.

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No one was injured in the house but all three teens were taken to the hospital, with charges pending.

Federal gun charges have been filed against an eight-time felon arrested early Monday coming out of a looted store on Chicago’s Far South Side.

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A powerful coalition of people of color is the greatest fear of those who resent the inevitable browning of America.

Overhauling the nation’s second-largest police force is a task of daunting scope. Now, a pandemic stands to slow reforms further.

One man was in custody Wednesday night after leading Chicago police on a chase throughout the city for about an hour, leaving several people, including officers, injured.

Looting began May 31, 2020, in Cicero and escalated the next afternoon when someone threw a paver stone through the front window of El Patron Liquor Store and dozens of people rushed in, grabbing whatever they could.

River Forest police investigating altercation in grocery store parking lot after video goes viral on social media

Three local pastors have called for Joliet Mayor Robert O’Dekirk’s resignation in the wake of a skirmish between the mayor, who is white, and an African American protester that was captured on a video that has gone viral as the Chicago area and nation reel from unrest over issues of racial injustice.

Demonstrations against racial injustice continued in Chicago’s western suburbs Wednesday, as large crowds gathered in Batavia and Wheaton to protest racism and envision a better future.

When the City of Chicago announced last week its intention to reopen the city Wednesday, its leaders did not anticipate servers emerging with cold drinks and hot plates of food from behind boarded-up windows.

Former Hampshire High School students chanting a racial slur are “disgraceful” and do not reflect their far northwest suburban school, an official said Wednesday.

A Chicago police officer restrained Mia Wright by placing a knee on her neck, according to her family. A family friend took a video.

Stick-on medical device tracks COVID-19 symptoms.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot should not hire an outside agency to oversee contract tracing for COVID-19 cases and instead use the money earmarked for that effort to beef up a diminished Chicago Department of Public Health, progressive activists said Tuesday.

With coronavirus closures sending Lane Technical High School’s 4,500 students off campus since March, computer science teacher Jeff Solin said he was determined to not let the high school’s Innovation and Creation Lab collect dust in the interim.

Warning: graphic content/language. Chicago police surrounded a vehicle, broke its windows and arrested a women near Brickyard Mall in Chicago.

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The lights are slowly blinking on in the small storefronts that stretch down Fullerton Avenue west of Kimball Avenue.