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[van id=”politics/2017/01/15/house-democrats-inauguration-whitfield-nr-live.cnn”] By Eugene Scott, CNN A growing number of Democratic lawmakers are boycotting President-elect Donald Trump&...

CHICAGO (AP) - The union representing Chicago Transit Authority rail workers has come out against an extension of a jobs program for felons. The decision by Amalgamated Transit Union Local 308 to oppo...

CHICAGO (AP) - Authorities say an off-duty Chicago police sergeant fired shots at a vehicle after a person inside showed a gun during a verbal confrontation on the city’s northwest side. Police ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Illinois Senate leaders are hoping to move swiftly on their pledge to advance a state budget compromise by month’s end. The Democratic-controlled chamber has assigned 13...

Eugene Ciardullo | Chicago Police   (CHICAGO) A Chicago Police officer who was employed as a security guard at a Chicago Public School has been charged with having a sexual relationship with an u...

(CHICAGO) A portion of the trail circling Northerly Island remains closed more than a year after waves from Lake Michigan caused erosion damage - and the Chicago Park District can't say when fixes wil...

  (WASHINGTON, DC) Inaugural planners have released the lineup for Donald Trump’s welcome celebration on the eve of his swearing-in. The headliners include country star Toby Keith, singer J...

  By Jason Hanna and Madison Park (CHICAGO) The Chicago Police Department has unconstitutionally engaged in a pattern of excessive and deadly force, US Attorney General Loretta Lynch said Friday,...

By Sophie Tatum and Betsy Klein A high-school student’s painting that evoked a national controversy earlier this week will be taken down after it was officially deemed to violate the House Offic...

(EVANSTON) An Evanston man is suing the north suburb's police department for excessive use of force and false arrest stemming from a 2015 traffic stop in which he was pulled over for suspected car the...