Illinois

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NEW YORK — Last year, companies around the U.S. scrambled to figure out how to shut down their offices and set up their employees...

Unending grief of COVID-19 deaths causing problems for some

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Kelly Brown's 74-year-old father got sick first with COVID-19, followed by her 71-year-old mom just two days later. John and Judy Trzebiatowski died of...

Rittenhouse attorney wants to show victim was sex offender

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MADISON, Wis. — Kyle Rittenhouse's attorney wants a judge to allow him to argue that one of the men his client fatally shot during...

2 Chicago officers shot, wounded trying to break up crowd

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Two Chicago police officers were shot and wounded early Monday while trying to break up a crowd following Fourth of July gatherings, authorities said. ...

National Spelling Bee stalwarts persevere through 2-year gap

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When the Scripps National Spelling Bee was canceled last year because of the pandemic, Avani Joshi didn’t lament her lost year of preparation. She...

Rocky path ahead as Chicago set to get elected school board

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CHICAGO — ILCHS801,802, ILSPR801 set for time release at 8a Saturday, July 3. ...

Evacuations extended near northern Illinois industrial fire

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MORRIS, Ill. — Toxic fumes and smoke from a burning former paper mill in northern Illinois that officials had believed was long abandoned but...

‘Pivotal time:’ Museum obtains key 1854 Lincoln letter

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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — An 1854 letter hinting at Abraham Lincoln's transition from prairie legislator to political powerhouse, donated to the state of Illinois, was...

EXPLAINER: How could the indictment hurt Trump’s company?

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NEW YORK — The criminal tax fraud charges unsealed against Donald Trump’s company Thursday are a blow to a business already reeling from...

Man with 13-year-old shot by police enters not-guilty plea

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CHICAGO — A man who was allegedly with a 13-year-old shortly before the child was shot to death by a Chicago police officer pleaded...