The man accused of killing seven people at a 2022 Independence Day parade in Chicago has rejected a deal requiring him to plead guilty to seven charges of murder in a stunning courtroom scene just days before the second anniversary of the attack. Appearing in a Lake County courtroom, Robert E Crimo III, 23, refused […]
The pool of presidential candidates widened in Illinois on Monday, now including five new names alongside President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump. Among them, the Robert F. Kennedy Jr. campaign submitted its nomination papers — containing more than 60,000 signatures according to campaign officials — with the Illinois State Board of Elections Monday […]
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Some 175 years after the U.S. government stole land from the chief of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation while he was away visiting relatives, Illinois may soon return it to the tribe. Nothing ever changed the 1829 treaty that Chief Shab-eh-nay signed with the U.S. government to preserve for him a […]
Initial filings for unemployment benefits in Illinois dropped last week compared with the week prior, the U.S. Department of Labor said Thursday. New jobless claims, a proxy for layoffs, fell to 9,981 in the week ending June 15, down from 11,406 the week before, the Labor Department said. U.S. unemployment claims dropped to 238,000 last […]
Embattled state GOP Chairman Don Tracy resigned Wednesday, ending his more than three-year run and furthering a chaotic period of leadership for a political organization bordering on irrelevancy just weeks before Republicans gather in nearby Milwaukee to renominate former President Donald Trump at their national convention. Tracy’s resignation comes just two days after Illinois Republican […]
The decision by top Illinois Republican officials to dethrone the party’s vice chair could portend even bigger changes for the moribund organization, including renewed efforts to replace its Illinois GOP Chairman Don Tracy. Mark Shaw, the former chairman of the GOP in Lake County, lost the title of state party vice chair and also was […]
RIVERWOODS, Ill. (AP) — The ground had seemed to undulate at night, alive with bugs. Crawling cicada nymphs, striving to get higher after 17 years underground, marched en masse toward and up trees, pausing to shed their skin and emerge as adults. And then the fun began. Cicada chaos is flourishing and flying. Trillions of […]
Is “brake checking” legal in Illinois, and what should you do if you encounter an angry driver on the road? Brake checking is when a driver slams their brakes not to avoid hitting something in front of them, but to make the person behind them slam their brakes or swerve off the road to avoid […]
On any summer day, no matter how hot, Tom Tomschin can sit comfortably on his porch and enjoy the pleasant shade of his front yard. “My neighbors always want to park under my tree,” said the longtime Cicero resident and executive director of the town’s Department of Housing. Tomschin and other town officials expect more […]
CHICAGO — The Illinois iLottery winner of the $552 million Mega Millions jackpot has come forward. The winner, who is confirmed to be from the Chicagoland area, has chosen to remain anonymous. According to the Illinois Lottery, the ‘MEGA Millionaire’ hit the jackpot while playing the game online – making this the largest prize won […]
The Illinois Housing Development Authority (IHDA) is alerting vulnerable households of an online scam pretending to be IHDA or a similar housing entity, according to a news release. The scam is presented as a flyer posted on Facebook announcing the opening of a wait list for specific properties as part of the Section 8 Housing […]
During another special operation in the metro-east this month, Illinois State Police made 26 arrests leading to 61 criminal charges, the agency announced Friday. The names of the people arrested were not provided in the new release announcing the results of the operation. These cases bring the total number of arrests in the region to […]