The contract with BriefCam would speed the county sheriff's response to jail emergencies, the sheriff’s office said. But ...

A Cook County judge heard closing arguments Monday over a petition from Anthony Garrett, convicted of fatally shooting 7-year-old Dantrell Davis in 1992. Garrett's attorneys said former Detective ...

This story is a partnership between WBEZ, Grist and Inside Climate News. Beatriz Salazar was sifting through her usual pile of mail this spring when an envelope from the city of Chicago caught her eye ...

The order, issued last week, stems from a lawsuit filed in February claiming the Justice Department and DHS coerced Facebook ...

The previously hard-to-find book, rereleased by the owners of the Graveface Museum, is the latest unboxed cultural artifact ...

Chicago says it will help fund some local arts organizations that lost money when the Trump administration canceled grants issued through the National Endowment for the Arts. Department of Cultural ...

The Chicago Board of Education on Wednesday approved a $17.5 million settlement for a former student who was sexually abused by a former dean at a Little Village high school. It’s the largest ...

After five years, the team's quest for a new dome has been narrowed to two choices in two states, with a lot at stake for ...

Some South Chicago residents are concerned about the economic and environmental impact the 128-acre park will have on the area. The Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park on Chicago’s South Side ...

As “The Twilight Zone” showed us, new technologies can inspire fear and stress. “Say More” listeners talk about the tech that ...

Times analysis has found that 580 people have been detained in the Chicago area from Jan. 1 through mid-March.

A plan to provide nearly $55 million in tax rebates for the $7 billion project that’s meant to be “transformative” for the ...