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An appellate court has vacated the vehicular hijacking and armed robbery convictions in a case that was touted by the Will County state’s attorney as an example of “effective prosecution” in contrast to Cook County. A new trial was ordered.

Amid a $770 million budget gap facing Metra, Pace and the CTA, and a proposal to merge the three into a supersized agency, Regional Transportation Authority leaders have issued their own transit rescue plan.

It may still have the city’s name in its title, but after 93 years, the Chicago Boat Show has dropped anchor in the suburbs. It runs through Sunday in Rosemont.

Nicor Gas, the state’s largest natural gas utility covering much of northern Illinois, is asking Illinois officials to approve a $309 million rate increase that, if approved, would raise a typical customer’s bill about $7.50 a month.

A Lockport woman was issued a citation for allegedly violating Scott’s law by crashing into the rear end of a parked Illinois State Police squad vehicle in Woodridge.

An inmate from an infirmary at Stateville Correctional Center in Crest Hill has died but the cause and manner of his death is not yet known.

A Huntley woman has died from injuries she sustained in a Christmas morning crash in Addison.

From a shift in focus to the Chicago lakefront to the end of a long-running tax battle in Arlington Heights, the Chicago Bears stadium saga had many chapters in 2024.

Nearly 11,000 riders in Will County this year used the Pace Dial-a-Ride service, which primarily provides transportation for the elderly and disabled people.

Kellie Barnett, 50, of New Lenox, had been staying the night with relatives in a Schaumburg home when she was fatally shot early on Christmas morning.

Illinois tollway leaders approved a new $2 billion, seven-year capital program Thursday that includes improvements to trouble spots in Cook, DuPage and Lake counties.

Lyons Township High School recently named its December Students of the Month

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More than 30 inflatable Santa Clause figures stand in front of homes on Ashland Avenue in La Grange and Countryside

Alejandro Lopez, 22, is being held in Cook County jail on three counts of burglary in connection to a series of burglaries in Joliet.

Prosecutors announced an indictment against a Barrington man charged with fatally shooting his estranged girlfriend last month.

A look at the many holiday movies that have been filmed in the Chicago suburbs.

As ridership grows, Pace is expanding service on a number of popular routes in Cook, DuPage and Lake counties.

A felon convicted of a 1993 Elgin murder has been sentenced to another 12 years in prison for firing a gun outside a Marengo restaurant.

A Chicago man has rejected a plea offer on the eve of his trial in the Joliet Denny’s murder case and could face up to 120 years if convicted, prosecutors said.

Pace buses every 20 minutes? Pace buses in every town? Or a hybrid system? It’s in your hands, officials say.

Meridian, a major health insurance provider especially for income-qualifying patients using Medicaid, will no longer accept Northwestern Medicine health system in network come Jan. 1, confirmed a Northwestern spokesman. "Tens of thousands" of patients will be impacted, he said.

Objections have been raised against three petitions filed by candidates seeking to run for the Joliet Junior College Board of Trustees.

Republican state Rep. Martin McLaughlin of Barrington Hills has retained his 52nd House District seat by a 47-vote margin,

A frustrated Will County judge warned a former attorney for convicted ex-Bolingbrook police officer Drew Peterson that he will face a new contempt case if he continued to interrupt and talk over her.

Special traffic enforcement patrols conducted by the Illinois State Police in November resulted in 895 citations issued across Cook, DuPage, Kane and Will counties.

The widow of a Wisconsin man is pushing Illinois and federal officials to install guardrails on the tollway ramp where he died after leaving a Crystal Lake restaurant.

A Harvey man convicted of a 2019 shooting was not placed on house arrest when he was allowed jail release in Will County, just weeks before he was charged with killing a Chicago police officer, according to court records and prosecutors.

A Will County judge ruled a Chicago man charged with a fatal I-80 shooting should remain locked up under the SAFE-T Act. A prosecutor said the victim was shot nine times in the road rage incident.

The Bears have reached a tentative agreement with three Arlington Heights-area school districts over a long-running property tax dispute for the former racetrack land, renewing the prospect of a suburban stadium.

The 24th Pilgrim Pie Run hosted by Rotary Club of La Grange will be held Thanksgiving morning

A Mississippi man is charged with home invasion stemming from the fatal stabbing of a co-worker early Sunday at a Prospect Heights motel, authorities said Tuesday.

Following almost a year of legal battles and fierce public opposition from many customers, water utility Aqua Illinois is set to raise its rates in 2025, impacting water customers in 14 northern Illinois counties.

The Illinois Supreme Court has overturned actor Jussie Smollett’s conviction on charges that he staged a racist and homophobic attack against himself in 2019 and lied to Chicago police

Between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m., snowfall rates could approach an inch per hour in some areas, contributing to accumulations of 1 to 4 inches, particularly on grassy and elevated surfaces

A McHenry County judge issued an arrest warrant Monday for a man accused of posing as a black car driver, driving a woman from an airport to McHenry and then refusing to let her out of the car her until she gave him $1,400.

The season’s first hint of winter is expected late Wednesday with snowfall expected throughout much of the suburbs.

A federal lawsuit claims an asthmatic inmate at Stateville Correctional Center in Crest Hill died from the extreme negligence of staff after he was placed in a “dangerously hot cell.”

In the wake of the killing of a Chicago police officer, Will County's state's attorney said lawmakers should close a “loophole” with the SAFE-T Act. Supporters of the law said his solution won't improve safety.

A Will County judge blocked the jail release of a Homer Glen father and business owner charged with endangering his child who died from a suspected overdose death in a $1 million home that was completely trashed.

Attorneys for a Crestwood man convicted of killing a Lockport woman and their 14-month-old child in 2020 are claiming constitutional violations should grant him a new trial. A judge may rule on the motion on Dec. 19.

After months of warnings about the “fiscal cliff” facing transit agencies when COVID-19 relief money expires, Metra leaders provided a stark hypothetical Wednesday.

The cause and manner of the death of a 12-year-old girl last spring in Joliet has been deemed undetermined, according to a Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office report.

Suburbanites secretly voting Republican coupled with blue-state laissez faire contributed to election surprises in the region, experts say.

Park District of La Grange officials are expected to discuss specific plans for various parks now that voters have approved a property tax hike referendum

One of two men charged last year with having defaced handguns and large-capacity magazines in their Lake in the Hills home, pleaded guilty Wednesday to unlawfully possessing a firearm while being younger than 21 and was sentenced to 21/2 years in prison.

A man accused of stabbing another in the parking lot of a Crystal Lake apartment complex and stealing his satchel pleaded guilty Friday to robbery.

Joliet police officers are still searching on Monday for Jocelyn Buster, 27, of Joliet, who is accused of money laundering and vehicle fraud.

Incumbent Democrats Johnathon Jackson and Robin Kelly appear to have easily won their bids for another term in Congress, representing Illinois Districts 1 and 2, respectively.

Celebrating the men and women from Du Page and Cook countieswho served and continue to serve their country.