Montell “Duke” Montgomery, 40, faces five charges after a 20-year-old woman arrived at a Rockford hospital with head cuts and a broken nose.

Chicago City Council cleared the way for an 11-story building near the Thorndale Red Line stop, all 90 units income-restricted.

A passenger in another vehicle opened fire on West Brayton Street, Chicago police say, about 41 hours after three people were shot at a nearby gas station.

The former Chicago mayor praised a youth mentoring program that now reaches more than 20,000 teens while weighing a White House run.

A decade of bank-backed grants supported affordable housing, small-business efforts and nonprofit lending — now JPMorgan wants to know what worked.

A 25-year-old man was critically wounded during an altercation involving a gray SUV and his car on South Lafayette Avenue.

Felicia Hirn was arrested in Maryland after a warrant alleged she choked and shook 3-year-old Leland Chipoco before his 2025 death.

MWRD's new Battery E is designed to remove phosphorus from wastewater at the Skokie plant.

McLean County alone counted $42.5 million in storm damage, and Bloomington is still paying cleanup wages out of pocket.

Federal agents say the wanted men and women used government-assisted housing as hideouts while facing weapons, drug and sexual assault cases.

Avondale went live first this week, with Bronzeville, Edgewater and Evanston following in a staggered rollout.

Owner Carlos Arechiga eyes a January 2027 opening inside a revamped former Giordano's near County Line Road.

Chef Angela McCrovitz swapped Vermont's Green Mountains for Northwest Indiana, dishing soup from a converted school bus styled like an old apothecary.