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The Tuesday VP debate will be the first — and possibly last — time Tim Walz and J.D. Vance face off before the 2024 general election.

The first thing that’s going to be impacted by the dockworkers strike, experts said, is fresh produce, like bananas, and fresh seafood.

A Chicago alderman renewed calls for Mayor Brandon Johnson to reactivate Chicago’s ShotSpotter contract after a weekend shooting left the body of a 19-year-old woman lying in an alley for hours.

A multi-agency investigation involving law enforcement and the Jasper County Coroner’s Office was underway at a house in Wheatfield Monday.

A Black man alleges in a lawsuit that an Iowa trucking company fired him as a driver because he wouldn’t cut off his dreadlocks, the latest in a series of incidents across the country over an issue activists have dubbed hair discrimination.

Tension between Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez and Mayor Brandon Johnson continued to grow for yet another day on Monday, with the mayor denying he ever asked Martinez to resign.

Verizon restored service to all affected customers Monday evening after a massive outage impacted more than 100,000 people across the U.S., including thousands in the Chicago area.

A popular school and neighborhood review website on Monday released its list of the 2025 Best School Districts in America, and three Chicago-area school districts claimed the top spots.

The family of Rhyker Earl, a 26-year-old father who died after being handcuffed following a medical emergency, said videos released last week from the body-worn cameras of sheriff’s deputies responding to a call for an epileptic seizure at his Indiana home don’t add up.

Verizon late Monday afternoon reported progress on resolving a “network issue” that spurred widespread outages across parts of the U.S., including in the Chicago area. In a post on X, the social media platform previously known as Twitter, at 4:04 p.m., the wireless network provider said its engineers were “making progress on our n...

Daylight saving time remains a divisive issue nearly 60 years after the Uniform Time Act was passed in Congress, with some states still seeking to skip the twice-annual time change.

Law enforcement on Monday announced an arrest in the “heinous” murder that left a suburban Chicago native dead and her children hiding for hours before calling for help.

A suburban 18-year-old has been identified as the person killed in a shooting during a “pop-up party” near Illinois State University’s campus over the weekend.