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Preckwinkle Defends Harassment Handling As Budget Sails Through

The Cook County Board president on Thursday again defended how she handled the firing of her chief of staff over harassment allegations.

After an “altercation” with prison staff, 65-year old Larry Earvin died. Documents from the coroner show he had multiple fractured ribs.

“Today’s problems can’t be fixed by yesterday’s people,” Kingsolver said on Nerdette. “They’re going to be fixed by tomorrow’s people.”

In 2016 and 2017, 174 people died while in an Illinois prison. Some of those deaths could have been prevented.

Recently Joy Smith retired after 40 years working with the railroad. Now she’s got some advice she wants to share.

For the first time in American history, poverty in suburbs like the village of Dolton has eclipsed urban poverty.

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The changes signal a growing acknowledgement that the city's reliance on fines and fees to generate revenue has come at a significant cost.

A grand jury has subpoenaed records from the governor’s office as part of a criminal probe into fatal Legionnaires’ disease outbreaks.

An artist is making his way through Chicago with a car destroyed by bullets to draw awareness of gun violence.

How a legacy of race, segregation and inequality on Chicago’s South Side was part of the first African-American First Lady’s foundation.

New info has a judge demanding state agencies turn over records related to the case of a man whose lawyers allege was wrongfully convicted.

That contradicts what multiple people who said they witnessed the shooting told the media.