The single-term Republican leaves behind a complicated history. He spent five years in federal prison after being convicted of racketeering, bribery, extortion, money laundering and tax fraud for ...

The Chicago Transit Board took no action on the potential appointment of a new agency president at a hastily scheduled ...

The deal that former Ald. Danny Solis made to work as a government informant ensured he would avoid a trial and keep his city ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost was born in Chicago, grew up in south suburban Dolton and served as prior of a local Augustinian ...

White smoke poured from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel and the great bells of St. Peter’s Basilica tolled Thursday after ...

A new government study provides the most complete picture yet of early-onset cancers, finding that the largest increases are ...

Bill Gates says he will donate 99% of his remaining tech fortune to the Gates Foundation, which will now close in 2045, ...

That massive growth funneled $5.84 billion into the special districts designed to spur redevelopment and eradicate blight, according to five years of reports on TIF districts published by the Cook ...

Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania was meeting last week with representatives from a teachers union when things ...

There promises to be nothing boring about the Illinois race to replace U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, who will retire in 2027 after ...

With all the pomp, drama and solemnity that the Catholic Church can muster, 133 cardinals on Wednesday began the secretive, ...