Public transit is a public good. But the CTA, in particular, suffers from flimsy leadership, ghost buses and crime. That ...

The suburban Chicago man who killed seven people at a 2022 Independence Day parade has been sentenced to life in prison ...

The company said it still plans to reopen the plant near Rockford in 2027, which is expected to employ 1,500 union workers.

WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) — The man who admitted to a 2022 mass shooting at a suburban Chicago Independence Day parade was set to ...

Steve McMichael, a star defensive tackle on the Chicago Bears’ famed 1985 Super Bowl championship team whose larger-than-life ...

2002: Wilco released “Yankee Hotel Foxtrot,” which Tribune critic Greg Kot called “the best album of 2001.” Its release had been held up in what he called “record company” politics. Twenty years later ...

Herbert Gans, an eminent sociologist and media analyst, has died at age 97. He wrote groundbreaking studies that advocated ...

1970: As the first Earth Day was observed in the United States, Illinois Attorney General William Scott told a rally at the ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson on Monday warned that Chicago was at a “crossroads” before signing an executive order establishing a ...

Trilla, Ill. (AP) — A single-engine plane crashed in a field in central Illinois on Saturday, killing all four people on board. Coles County Coroner Ed Schniers said the victims were two women and two ...