As Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency crew worked last week to download and rummage through massive tranches of ...

Treasurer’s website offers easy way to update property tax bill name and address information. You may not look forward to ...

The Supreme Court ruled in May 2023 that tax sales as they've been practiced in several states unconstitutionally rob ...

Any slash to Medicaid's budget could hit lowest income families hardest.

The Cook County Medical Examiner's Office has identified the man who died after being shot outside of a suburban Glenwood bar ...

One woman was killed and another injured Saturday night in a Near North Side shooting. Police responded to a residential ...

Three Cook County residents are being detained after allegedly stealing a high-end SUV and leading police on a high-speed ...

Soul vocalist Jerry Butler, a.k.a. "The Iceman" died on February 20, 2025, at the age of 85. He had been fighting Parkinson's disease in the previous years.

An Indiana bill would set up a commission to evaluate changing the state’s boundary with Illinois to welcome counties who have approved exploring seceding from the Land ...

A 39-year-old man was arrested in northwest Indiana Friday morning after an Amber Alert and stabbings that left a mother dead and two young brothers critically injured.

A police officer, who lived in Cary and was known for being "full of life," was laid to rest Friday after he was killed by a wrong-way driver in Barrington while on the way to work.

The suspect also kidnapped two of the woman's boys, ages 11 and 8. They were found separately and hospitalized in critical ...