While 14-year-old Jeremy Herred fights for his life, Ald. Monique Scott questioned Tuesday why the park district hired ...

A lifeguard accused of shooting two teens last week, killing one, resigned from the Chicago Park District in lieu of being ...

Daley and longtime lobbyist for local public agencies like Cook County and its Forest Preserve District, lists the Chicago Transit Authority as a current client. Williams referred questions to the ...

1986: Hard Rock Cafe opened in Chicago. Mayor Harold Washington and Chicago Bears quarterback Jim McMahon were among its first guests. TV host Oprah Winfrey attended the opening with Stedman Graham, ...

— Adam Bianchi has been tapped as general superintendent of the Cook County Forest Preserve District. He’s the district ...

Michael Madigan will follow Ed Burke to federal prison, arguably ending Irish political leadership stretching back 150 years ...

A judge has denied singer R. Kelly’s request for furlough from prison after the convicted sex offender accused federal prison officials of plotting to murder him. U.S.

Experience breathtaking July 4th fireworks at Chicago’s Navy Pier and St. Louis’ Gateway Arch, two of America’s top ...

The National Weather Service has forecast daytime temperatures in the Chicago area will reach highs in the low to mid-90s ...

A Chicago police supervisor who was involved in the bungled probe of the punch thrown by a nephew of former Mayor Richard M.

Michael Madigan, the country’s longest-serving state House leader, served as speaker of the Illinois House from 1983 until ...

RIPPLE EFFECT: Thousands of demonstrators marched through downtown Chicago on Tuesday, stopping traffic in the Loop and along DuSable Lake Shore Drive to protest the Trump administration’s immigration ...