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The person entered Imperial Jewelry Co. in the first block of North Wabash Ave. on the infamous Jewelers Row block and attempted to steal store property, an employee of the store confirmed to the Tribune.

Illinois State Police responded to multiple crashes and spinouts, including one fatal car crash on I-94.

Authorities in the eastern Caribbean say they are trying to locate two people believed to be U.S. citizens who were aboard a yacht hijacked by three escaped prisoners from Grenada. The Royal Grenada Police Force said in a statement posted Friday that they are working on leads “that suggest” the two occupants of the yacht may have been killed. The nonprofit Salty Dawg Sailing Association identified the owners as Ralph Hendry and Kathy Brandel and said they had sailed from Virginia to Antigua and planned... Читать дальше...

The U.S. military warns of the danger of a spill from the vessel’s cargo.

Loyce Wright, 43, died while working as a security guard at an Austin Family Dollar Feb. 23, his daughter said. He was a "gentle giant" who gave good hugs and made people laugh, they remembered.

A 37-year-old woman was hit by gunfire Friday night that pierced through a window of her residence in the Washington Heights neighborhood, Chicago police said.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s administration vowed Friday to take a more rigorous look at polluters before allowing them to operate or expand in low-income communities.

Mayor Brandon Johnson selects Marlene Hopkins as interim buildings head. She oversaw the 2020 Crawford plant implosion that covered neighborhood in dust and debris.

Harshkumar Ramanlal Patel faces two charges of smuggling people into the U.S and is connected with the January 2022 exposure deaths of a family of four from India, per court records.

While Illinoisans would see lower totals on their grocery receipts under Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s proposed budget, a low-key tweak on income tax calculations would result in a few less dollars on tax returns next year.

The family of an assistant principal who was shot and killed inside a residential building in the Loop called on Chicago police and the Cook County State’s Attorney’s office at a Friday rally to press criminal charges against the alleged gunman.

Robert Adrian, the veteran judge in downstate Quincy who in 2022 reversed his guilty ruling against a young man in a sexual assault case, has been removed from the bench, the Illinois Courts Commission ruled. The rare decision from the seven-member commission, issued Friday, said that Adrian sought to circumvent the state’s mandatory minimum sentencing […]

A man is dead and a woman was questioned after a chase involving Hammond Police and a stolen U-Haul that ended up in the Little Calumet River early Wednesday morning. Police received a license-plate reader alert around 4:10 a.m. February 21 for a stolen U-Haul within city limits, Hammond Police spokesman Lt. Steve Kellogg said in a release. They located it around 136th and Sheffield Avenue and tried to pull it over, but it fled the scene, Kellogg said. Police continued following the U-Haul at around... Читать дальше...

A former Chicago police sergeant was sentenced to a year in federal prison Friday for the on-duty sexual assault of a transgender woman inside his squad car, a crime the judge called an egregious betrayal of his oath.

President Joe Biden told the nation’s governors on Friday that he’s exploring what executive actions he can take to curb migration across the southern border after a bipartisan deal collapsed in Congress this month. He seemed to express frustration at the legal limits of his authority to act unilaterally.

The National Rifle Association and its former longtime leader were found liable Friday in a lawsuit centered on the organization’s lavish spending.

Real estate interests sued to stop cornerstone homelessness initiative pushed by Mayor Brandon Johnson.