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(CHICAGO) Edgar Valencia Ortega quickly rose from gopher to international money launderer inside Mexico's notorious Sinaloa drug cartel. But his attorneys say Ortega had an edge - he and his siblings ...

(CHICAGO) No injuries were reported early Monday when a fire broke out on a sailboat in Burnham Harbor on the South Side. Authorities responded shortly before 3 a.m. to a report of a boat fire in Burn...

CHICAGO (AP) - Illinois’ governor has donated $100,000 to Missouri Republican gubernatorial candidate Eric Greitens. A state campaign finance report filed Friday shows Republican Gov. Bruce Raun...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - A top Republican in the Illinois House who resigned in July citing cybersecurity issues now says he engaged in “inappropriate online conversations” with a woman wh...

(CHICAGO) City officials have decided to expand the use of police-worn body cameras throughout Chicago following a pilot program that began in 2015 and has raised questions about whether officers alwa...

CHICAGO (AP) - Police in Chicago have arrested a suspect in the robbery and shooting of a 71-year-old man who was attacked while watering his front yard. A news release from the Chicago Police Departm...

By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM 890 News (CHICAGO) Ron Sandack, the Downers Grove Republican state legislator who abruptly resigned in July, now says he was extorted after getting involved in “inappropr...

[van id=”world/2016/09/16/beatles-movie-premiere.cnn”] Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr reunited in London at the world premiere of Ron Howard’s new Beatles documentary in London. Acad...

By Karl de Vries, CNN Libertarian Gary Johnson and Green Party nominee Jill Stein will not participate in the first presidential debate, and their running mates will not be in the vice presidential de...

[van id=”politics/2016/09/16/donald-trump-jimmy-fallon-mess-up-hair-ekr-orig-vstop.cnn”] When Donald Trump appeared on “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon,” he allowed the host...