A Kankakee County jury convicted Xandria Harris of murder and other felonies for her role in the 2021 shooting that killed Bradley Sgt. Marlene Rittmanic and wounded Officer Tyler Bailey.
Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez ended his congressional run and launched a reelection campaign for 25th Ward alderman, joining a field of five other declared candidates.
Chicago DJ Omar David Panqueva Rojas and his husband Santiago Páez are back home on ankle monitors after more than a week in ICE detention, but their immigration case is still open.
Gov. JB Pritzker signed a disaster proclamation covering 15 Illinois counties, opening up to $250,000 in state grants per community for storm debris removal and infrastructure repairs.
Residents have sued NIPSCO, claiming poor vegetation management caused outages that left more than 40,000 Northwest Indiana customers without power nearly two weeks after an Aug. 11 derecho.
NASCAR will skip Chicago's Grant Park street race in 2027, opting instead for a June date at Chicagoland Speedway in Joliet, after talks with the city stalled over scheduling and funding.
About 230 Teamsters Local 700 members who maintain the Forest Preserves of Cook County walked off the job Monday in the union's first-ever strike. The union says the walkout follows years of pay raises falling behind those given to non-union workers.
The DNC has eliminated Chicago and Atlanta from the running for the 2028 Democratic National Convention, narrowing the field to Boston, Denver and Philadelphia.
Chicago fire investigators are calling a Sunday morning blaze at the West Loop restaurant Habibti a suspected arson after security video showed two people breaking in and setting two separate fires.
Mayor Brandon Johnson was met with boos and chants at a South Chicago town hall after he declined to reverse his support for the $9 billion Quantum Shore computing campus planned for the former U.S. Steel South Works site.