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“You put six months of energy into this case and all of a sudden you have something tangible you’re looking at,” Det. Matt Vartanian of Elgin’s Cold Case unit told NBC 5.

Trustee Jason House, who defeated incumbent Mayor Tiffany Henyard in the February primary, is headed toward the mayor’s chair, leading Casundra Hopson-Jordan by a wide margin.

The recall comes over concerns that the products may contain a cleaning solution with sodium hypochlorite.

A suburban Chicago woman somehow survived a terrorist attack in Israel, only to fight decades of legal battles against her foreign attackers.

A Chicago suburb has signed a contract with a private security firm to help provide patrols amid an ongoing police shortage.

Voters across Wisconsin on Tuesday cast ballots in the state’s Supreme Court race, which has drawn national eyeballs and the attention of President Donald Trump.

Police said officers responded to reports of gunfire at around 4 a.m. at Portside Pub in Hammond where they found two people killed and three others wounded

Will Social Security checks go out as planned this month as the agency eyes a number of changes to combat fraud and budget cuts?

Health officials issued a warning this week after someone at a suburban Chicago high school was diagnosed with active tuberculosis.

Three different Minecraft-themed meals are now on the menu at McDonald’s according to the Chicago-based burger chain — two for adults and one Happy Meal.

Illinois voters will cast ballots Tuesday in a series of municipal elections that will decide everything from suburban mayors to tax increases and more.

For the last 10 years, Chicago has earned the title of “rattiest” city. But a new pilot program in a popular neighborhoods could help to break the streak: Rat birth control.

While there’s still much uncertainty surrounding the future of the Chicago Bears’ new stadium, a prank on social media is going viral as it tried to fool fans into thinking the team was heading to Naperville.