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After 15 years of investigating an unsolved double murder in Oregon, Ill., restaurateur Mike Arians' last hope is to exhume one of the victims. Now, Arians has a judge's approval to take that step.

A cousin is the third person to be charged in the death of a 3-year-old boy, who was found malnourished and brutally beaten in his West Rogers Park home, authorities said.

Jurors found a Lake County man guilty of murder late Wednesday in the shooting death of an 18-year-old mother in North Chicago.

The Chicago Tribune Media Group's Post-Tribune reports: Workers on Wednesday were preparing the historic Lake County Courthouse to make way on the first floor for the John Dillinger Museum.

The Lincoln Park Zoo’s lioness, Myra, had to be euthanized Tuesday at age 18 after going into declining health recently, the zoo announced.

For the second time this month, Jamille Kent on Monday took the witness stand to tell a Will County judge about what life has been like since her son, Terrance Rankins, and his friend, Eric Glover, were found strangled in a Joliet apartment just down the road from her home.

Police tracked down one of two suspects in the sexual assault of two women early on Halloween after detectives released surveillance footage of the women’s attackers and investigators received several anonymous calls identifying the suspects, prosecutors said Wednesday.

Some friends and family of Christopher Anderson, the 27-year-old Waukegan man shot and killed by police last week at NorthShore Highland Park Hospital, are seeking to view hospital video footage of the incident.

An off-duty Chicago police officer was in critical but stable condition Wednesday morning after she and her daughter were shot at the daughter's South Side home, authorities said.

Black smoke was pouring from the roof of an apartment building as a group of young women, moving between friends’ homes early Sunday morning, drove by and stopped to call 911.

The state law that facilitated Chicago Public Schools' venture into high-risk securities included few oversight measures or checks on local borrowing. It also passed without much discussion.

In 2007, a senior Bank of America official warned of a potential "meltdown" in the auction-rate bond market. Chicago's public school system was about to find out what such a meltdown would mean.

A decade ago, Chicago school officials gambled that they could borrow money cheaply by issuing auction-rate bonds paired with derivative contracts. But in a first-of-its kind analysis, the Tribune found it was a losing bet.

A Tinley Park political insider has received no-bid contract extensions worth millions for nearly two decades.

Frederick Niemi grew up in Berwyn, but he was deeply attached to his family's ancestral homeland of Finland, involving himself in a number of Finnish-American organizations and serving as Finland's honorary consul in Chicago for more than 30 years.

Joe Dooley was just 5 years old when he wrapped a couple of rubber bands around a cigar box and began strumming.

In the early years of his decadeslong congressional career, Philip Crane was a key figure in the fledgling conservative movement that became a standard of American politics.

Across almost 50 years as an educator at several suburban school districts and universities, Robert Dean Marshall focused on designing curriculum programs that would benefit students and their ability to learn.

The grand jury considering whether to charge a white Missouri police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black teen in August appears to be approaching the end of its process, lawyers for the family said on Thursday.

The U.S. government warned iPhone and iPad users on Thursday to be on the alert for hackers who may exploit a vulnerability in Apple Inc's iOS operating system that would enable them to steal sensitive data.

WASHINGTON — A group of House and Senate Republicans wants to use spending legislation to block President Barack Obama from easing immigration policies unilaterally, a mechanism the party used last year to shut down the government.

Google was sued this week by a worker who claimed the company did not pay overtime, improperly classified him as an independent contractor then terminated him after he asked for more hours to be covered under his contract.