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Former Governor Jim Thompson says he is still talking with the Cubs about buying Wrigley Field even though Tribune owner Sam Zell rejected...

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05/14 11:14 AM

More than 200 people were honored at Northern Illinois University for their role in responding to a campus shooting spree earlier this year.

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05/14 8:57 AM

An area mom denies racking up $12,000 in tollway fines that resulted in a suspended license.

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05/13 10:51 PM

An Indiana mother has been sentenced for helping her teenaged son carry out a deadly drive-by shooting.

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05/14 5:04 PM

The FBI is investigating the Chicago Park District. Crain's Chicago Business reports FBI agents have been asking questions about the...

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05/14 5:05 PM

A group of residents from Chicago's Austin community took their fight for a new high school to City Hall Wednesday.

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05/14 5:11 PM

The Chicago Park District could veto a plan to finish some controversial soccer fields in Lincoln Park.

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05/14 11:25 AM

A man got inside Green Bay's Resch Center, commandeered a forklift and used it to steal an automated teller machine.

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05/14 4:39 PM

Chicago is getting a new museum at an old landmark in the heart of downtown.

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05/14 6:09 PM

Some stations in Chicago are now charging $4.25 a gallon for regular gas.

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05/13 7:11 PM

Seven potential jurors in R&B singer R. Kelly's child pornography trial have been dismissed, leaving the total seated panel so far in the...

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05/14 1:51 PM

The first openly gay member of the Illinois Legislature has died.

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05/14 5:10 PM

Two paramedics with the Chicago Fire Department were suspended after using a racial slur.

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05/14 11:26 AM

Parts of the Chicago area are cleaning up from the storm that swept through Tuesday night.

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05/14 7:34 AM

A home invasion ended in gunfire in the western suburbs.

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05/13 6:30 PM

Records made public by the city of Chicago show a police officer was fired last month after deputy sheriffs evicting him from his home in...

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05/14 3:23 PM

Authorities say 11 officers and seven inmates were injured in a fight involving more than 40 inmates in a Cook County Jail yard.

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05/14 3:25 PM

Many of Chicago's pothole-ridden streets will not be repaired anytime soon, according to transportation officials who say a lack of state...

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05/13 6:38 PM