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Andrew Wheeler, a former congressional aide and lobbyist who has led the Environmental Protection Agency since his scandal-plagued predecessor resigned earlier this year, got President Donald Trump's nod Friday for the permanent job.
Travelers were reporting problems Friday with crowds and lines at O’Hare International Airport due to construction on the trams between terminals ahead of the Thanksgiving travel rush next week.
Maybe it was a crime story he read in the newspaper or perhaps a sobering local TV report, but whatever it was, it prompted White Sox and Bulls Chairman Jerry Reinsdorf to pick up the phone and call the other most influential team executives in t...
The CIA has concluded that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul last month, contradicting the Saudi government's claims that he was not involved in the killing, according to pe...
A Country Club Hills police officer shot and wounded a man who hit another officer with his car while driving away from a parking lot where police had been called, according to the Police Department.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel inched forward Friday with his new police academy, a project he pitched as a tangible symbol of his commitment to reforming the troubled department and an anchor for the West Side, but which has since become a flashpoint in the...
To get a sense of the tug of war going on in Washington over whether Nancy Pelosi will regain her former post as speaker of the House with Democrats returning to power, look no further than the divide among Illinois’ congressional delegation.
Between 800 and 1,000 years ago, a young Native American man died in what is now Antioch Township near Fox Lake, and after all those years, a homeowner inadvertently dug up the bones while working on a landscaping project last September, opening ...
A McHenry man convicted of murdering his wife in 2016 — leaving her body in the basement of their home for days before an apparent suicide attempt — showed no emotion as he was sentenced Friday to 40 years in prison.
At least one man has been charged in the recent rash of incidents involving women being approached by males on the Evanston campus of Northwestern University, and he is currently being held without bail at Cook County Jail.
Mayoral candidate Paul Vallas released a plan Friday to “right-size” Chicago Public Schools amid declining enrollment if elected, but he said he’s talking about reimagining schools to better meet the needs of residents, not shutting them do...
The cost of six-week children’s summer camps run by the Chicago Park District is expected to increase about 8 percent next year, according to the district’s proposed budget for 2019 released Friday.
