Chicago Public Schools officials have suspended an employee of Dunbar Vocational Career Academy on the South Side after a video surfaced that appears to show him pushing a 16-year-old female student d
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The tornado that struck Oklahoma on Monday took a devastating toll in the number of lives lost and property destroyed. But amidst the anguish and destruction there is another "heart-wrenching&quo
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Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy is insisting all of the news coverage about violence in Chicago hides the fact that overall crime is down here.
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Zachary Fardon, a Chicago attorney who was part of the trial team for Gov. George Ryan, has been nominated to be the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois.
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In Washington, President Obama's nomination of Chicago entrepreneur Penny Pritzker to be Secretary Commerce went before the Senate Commerce Committee Thursday morning.
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Illinoisans who wish to help residents of Oklahoma affected by this weeks’s tornado are urged to watch out for fundraising scams by con artists seeking to exploit the disaster for profit.
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