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Owner Vanessa Aguirre-Ávalos was busy watching over a small group of young children at Luna y Cielo Play Café when she heard what sounded like a helicopter circling over the neighborhood. Concerned, ...

A Supreme Court ruling, while technically temporary, could set the ground rules for National Guard deployments elsewhere in the country. By Ann E. Marimow Reporting from Washington State and local ...

The 2026 WNBA All-Star Game will be played at Chicago's United Center on Saturday, July 25, the league announced Thursday. This will be the second time Chicago has hosted the game. It was there in ...

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Residents have begun forming volunteer groups to monitor their neighborhoods for federal immigration agents. Others honk their horns or blow whistles when they see agents nearby. Residents have begun ...

A North Chicago man apparently fatally shot his domestic partner before taking his own life, according to Lake County authorities. The Lake County Coroner’s Office identified the couple as Olivia ...

Scientists who inspected Chicago's famous "rat hole" now say the imprint was not actually made by a rat, calling it a case of "mistaken identity." In an analysis published in the journal Biology ...

Two illegal migrants were taken into custody on Tuesday after crashing their vehicle into a Border Patrol vehicle in Chicago during an immigration enforcement operation, leading to a clash with ...

SPRINGFIELD — One of the Illinois legislature’s biggest opponents of the Chicago Bears’ plan to relocate outside the city introduced legislation on Tuesday that could stall or hinder the team’s ...

A Facebook group that shared information on sightings of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in the Chicago area was taken down by Meta following pressure from the Justice Department, according ...

President Donald Trump said he could legally invoke the Insurrection Act to tackle violent crime in Chicago and urged Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker to "beg for help," intensifying the long-running ...