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More than 100 Flossmoor residents attended Monday's Village Board meeting, and about a dozen spoke in favor of keeping police Chief Jerel Jones.

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The city of Chicago has sued Glock, one of the largest firearms manufacturers in the world, accusing the gunmaker of willfully ignoring design flaws in its handguns that allow for them to be easily turned fully automatic.

Since February 29, Hoobler has not participated in any city meetings at the recommendation of Illinois Liquor Control Commission Special Agent Kevin Croke, and as of Monday he will take a leave of absence from all his council duties until the resignation date, his letter stated.

A man charged with breaking into two homes in Wheaton and Lombard and shooting a homeowner in 2020 has been sentenced to 60 years in prison, prosecutors said Monday. Malik Pitts, 25, of Broadview, pled guilty last year to one count of attempted murder, one count of home invasion and one count of attempted child pornography, according to a news release from the DuPage County State’s Attorney’s Office. Pitt’s co-defendant, Isaiah Johnson, 24, of Blue Island, is scheduled for a sentencing hearing March 29.

As of Monday night, the city had recorded more than 157,000 early votes through in-person or mail-in ballots. Roughly 109,000 mail-in ballots have yet to be returned, Board of Elections Chairwoman Marisel Hernandez told reporters Tuesday morning when polls opened.

The family of a woman found dead last year in a lower West Side alley gathered Monday evening near the intersection where her body was found to mark what would have been her 23rd birthday and call on police to renew their attention to the case. Rosa Chacon’s body was found bound and wrapped in sheets in a laundry cart in an alley on the 2300 block of West 24th Place in March 2023. Chacon, 21, had been missing for about two months and was last seen getting into a ride-share outside her home in Little Village. Читать дальше...

National Weather Service officials are expecting a sunny Tuesday with temperatures reaching into the mid 50s with wind gust as high as 40 mph. Tuesday is expected to be mostly sunny with a high near 55 degrees, but windy with a southwest wind between 20 to 30 mph. Gust may reach up to 40 mph, officials said. Tuesday night, conditions are expected to be mostly clear with temperatures dropping to the low 30s. Winds are expected to shift to the northwest to 10 to 15 mph and gust tapering to 25 mph, officials said. Читать дальше...

Campaign flyers are seen during a “Humboldt Park March to the Polls” campaign event on March 9, 2024, in Chicago. (Vincent Alban/Chicago Tribune) After voting, Lawrence Weisler and his 6-year-old child James Weisler walks past voting booths at the Chicago Board of Elections’ Loop Super Site the day before Illinois’ primary Election Day on March 18, 2024.(Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune) Campaign signs are seen outside of the Humboldt Park Chicago Public Library during a “Humboldt Park March to the Polls” campaign event on March 9... Читать дальше...

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Trustees of the Oak Park Public Library board voted Saturday to fire the library director because of “a persistent lack of alignment” in priorities with the board, officials announced in a statement.

Primary races for U.S. House, Cook County state’s attorney and a homelessness referendum in Chicago among the highlights.

Votes will be counted after polls close in Illinois at 7 p.m. Central. See statewide election results here. Last minute questions about voting? View our voter guide. Here is one for Chicago residents and one for suburban residents.

Clayton Harris III and Eileen O'Neill Burke are competing in the Democratic primary to succeed Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx. Bob Fioretti is running unopposed in the Republican primary.

Illinois voters cast their ballots for president Tuesday, a week after President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump secured enough delegate support to become their parties’ presumptive nominees.

Some of the key local races include for U.S. Congress, the Illinois House, the Illinois Senate and two seats on the Illinois Supreme Court.

Arlington Heights village officials have proposed a compromise over the Chicago Bears’ property tax for a proposed domed stadium site in the suburb that would significantly cut the team’s tax bill.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a measure setting up the process an elected Chicago school board, starting with the election of 10 members to a 21-seat board this November.

The infamous “Access Hollywood” video in which Donald Trump bragged about grabbing women sexually without asking permission will not be shown to jurors at the former president’s hush-money criminal trial. Judge Juan M. Merchan ruled Monday that prosecutors can still question witnesses about the 2005 tape, which was made public in the final weeks of Trump’s 2016 White House campaign. But the judge said “it is not necessary that the tape itself be introduced into evidence or that it be played for the... Читать дальше...

A Georgia judge’s recent decisions regarding a criminal racketeering case that includes charges against Orland Park pastor the Rev. Stephen Cliffgard Lee and former President Donald Trump makes Lee “optimistic” about his case, his lawyer says.

The settlement — set to become one of the largest in Chicago’s history if it passes a full City Council vote Wednesday — will help pay for the medical care of Nathen Jones

A 13-year-old boy was in critical condition after he was shot Monday afternoon in the South Shore neighborhood.