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Dec 11, 2025
The Mint abandoned designs from Joe Biden's presidency that highlighted women's suffrage and civil rights, favoring classical imagery.
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Dec 11, 2025
Parents at Haugan Elementary in Albany Park say the school is overcrowded and are upset Chicago Public Schools denied their request to expand.
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Dec 11, 2025
A federal appeals court in Chicago issued a mixed opinion Thursday in a high-profile immigration case, blocking the immediate release of hundreds of people detained during Operation Midway Blitz but allowing the extension of a consent decree governing so-called warrantless arrests.
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Dec 11, 2025
The city of Gary and Indiana University Northwest have worked on a food security study, which should be released in early spring 2026.
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Dec 11, 2025
Illinois Democrats had been awaiting the outcome of the Indiana vote, warning Illinois was ready to respond. For now, it appears Illinois will stand down in that effort.
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Dec 11, 2025
A combination of trade wars with China and rising costs has led to projections of billions in losses nationally for growers this year.
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Dec 11, 2025
The political stakes of rising premiums are looming as affordability concerns have emerged as a key issue for American voters going into the midterms next year.
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Dec 11, 2025
A 73-year-old Homer Glen woman was robbed at gunpoint shortly before 3 p.m. Wednesday, and her wrists and ankles bound.
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Dec 11, 2025
Former Brooklyn Nets forward Jason Collins, the first openly gay player in the NBA, is battling a particularly aggressive form of glioblastoma.
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Dec 11, 2025
The Indiana Senate voted 31-19 to defeat a mid-census redistricting map Thursday, ending a months-long effort by the Trump administration to shift Indiana's congressional districts.
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Dec 11, 2025
This season's early snowfall shoveling might remind some of a relentless winter from almost 50 years ago when Chicago experienced its most snow ever: almost 90 inches of it.
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Dec 11, 2025
The Utah man charged with killing Charlie Kirk is making his first in-person court appearance Thursday.
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Dec 11, 2025
A Cedar Lake woman is facing a low-level felony after she admitted spending $1,700 worth of unauthorized purchases on a Cub Scouts debit card.
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Dec 11, 2025
Matthew Sokolowski of Palos Park is being held in the Cook County Jail on attempted murder for an attack on his adopted parents.
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Dec 11, 2025
Elgin police said they have no evidence that people threw "rocks and bottles" at ICE agents when they were taking a man into custody.
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Dec 11, 2025
Soccer fans have accused FIFA of a "monumental betrayal" after latest prices for World Cup tickets began to circulate on Thursday.
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Dec 11, 2025
An Iowa man is accused of leaving the scene of an accident Tuesday night and attempting to bite and intimidate a police officer who arrested him.
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Dec 11, 2025
ShareFest Will County, scheduled for Sunday in Lockport, has been canceled amid predicted subzero temperatures that would be dangerous.
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Dec 11, 2025
Second Story Ranch purchased its property near Crete in March and secured zoning approval from Will County in September.
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Dec 11, 2025
Holiday Express at Blackberry Farm at at 100 S. Barnes Road in Aurora will be held Friday evening and next weekend as scheduled, district officials said in a statement Thursday.
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Dec 11, 2025
Winter's arrival in Northwest Indiana triggered a warning from Indiana Conservation officers to stay off shelf ice along Lake Michigan.
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Dec 11, 2025
Attorneys for Krystal Rivera's family said Carlos Baker was profoundly unfit to be a police officer, as demonstrated by the 11 misconduct complaints in which he was a subject in the years before he shot and killed Rivera.
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Dec 11, 2025
The Senate on Thursday rejected legislation to extend Affordable Care Act tax credits, essentially guaranteeing that millions of Americans will see a steep rise in costs at the beginning of the year.
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Dec 11, 2025
A month before his retrial on bribery charges, state Sen. Emil Jones III has agreed to enter into a deferred prosecution deal with prosecutors that will leave him with no conviction as long as he admits to certain illegal conduct and pays a fine.
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Dec 11, 2025
The Chicago Bears surprised DeMateo in recognition of his work supporting immigrant and low-income families on Chicago's Southwest Side.
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Dec 11, 2025
The Chicago Bears surprised Matt DeMateo in recognition of his work supporting immigrant and low-income families on Chicago's Southwest Side.
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Dec 11, 2025
The Homer Glen Village Board voted 5-1 Wednesday to approve 12 license plate reader cameras, despite an public vote against them.
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Dec 11, 2025
Mike Lindell, the fervent supporter of President Donald Trump known to TV viewers as the "MyPillow Guy," officially entered the race for Minnesota governor Thursday in hopes of winning the Republican nomination to challenge Democratic Gov. Tim Walz.
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Dec 11, 2025
A federal judge in Maryland ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia freed from immigration detention on Thursday while his legal challenge against his deportation moves forward.
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Dec 11, 2025
NASCAR has reached a settlement of the bruising antitrust lawsuit filed against it by two of its race teams, including one co-owned by NBA great Michael Jordan.
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Dec 11, 2025
Here's a look back at how Chicago's current snowfall compares with previous seasons.
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Dec 11, 2025
Two officers suffered minor injuries in an overnight crash on Lower Wacker Drive, Chicago police said.
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Dec 11, 2025
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was due to hold urgent talks Thursday with leaders and officials from about 30 countries that support Kyiv's efforts to obtain fair terms for halting nearly four years of war following Russia's full-scale invasion.
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Dec 11, 2025
A 37-year-old woman was left in serious condition and a 31-year-old man was pronounced dead in a double shooting overnight on the Far South Side in the Calumet Heights neighborhood, Chicago police said.
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Dec 11, 2025
The "Architects of AI" were named Time magazine's person of the year for 2025 on Thursday.
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Dec 11, 2025
Defense attorneys and prosecutors were set Thursday to choose the jurors who will decide whether a Wisconsin judge accused of helping a Mexican immigrant dodge federal officers committed a crime.
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Dec 11, 2025
Washington state was under a state of emergency Thursday from a barrage of torrential rain that has sent rivers flowing over their banks, caused a mudslide to crash down on a highway and trapped people in floodwaters. Tens of thousands of residents could face evacuation orders.
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Dec 11, 2025
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Dec 11, 2025
Using Treasury Department numbers on revenue from tariffs and Goldman Sachs estimates of who ends up paying for them, the Democrats' report Thursday found that American consumers' share of the bill came to nearly $159 billion — or $1,198 per household — from February through November.
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Dec 11, 2025
His aunt describes him as an "incredibly hardworking" man with a huge heart. The Department of Homeland Security says he's a suspected member of a Venezuelan gang.
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Dec 11, 2025
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Dec. 11, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Dec 11, 2025
On Dec. 11, 1816, Indiana was admitted to the Union as the 19th U.S. state.
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Dec 10, 2025
An autopsy found that the victim had been stabbed 26 times, officials said.
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Dec 10, 2025
CBS News appointed Tony Dokoupil as anchor of the "CBS Evening News" on Wednesday, charging him with taking on ABC's dominant David Muir on one of the flagship shows for broadcast television.
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Dec 10, 2025
The federalization of 300 Illinois National Guard troops was extended for 32 days, Gov. JB Pritzker's office said, even though the soldiers have mostly remained on an Illinois Army National Guard training site in Marseilles.
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Dec 10, 2025
The House voted to pass a sweeping defense policy bill Wednesday that authorizes $900 billion in military programs, including a pay raise for troops and an overhaul of how the Department of Defense buys weapons.
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Dec 10, 2025
A parent of a Kentucky State University student has been charged with murder in an on campus shooting that killed one student and critically injured another.
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Dec 10, 2025
Republican Senators did not have to cast initial votes related to Indiana's mid-census redistricting Wednesday as the three Democratic amendments were voted on by voice vote.
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Dec 10, 2025
Federal health officials on Wednesday expanded an outbreak of infant botulism tied to recalled ByHeart baby formula to include all illnesses reported since the company began production in March 2022.
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Dec 10, 2025
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the United States has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela as tensions mount with the government of President Nicolás Maduro.
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Dec 10, 2025
Oak Lawn will receive about $1,300 less in revenues than expenditures in 2026. The budget also includes a 6.8% water rate increase.
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Dec 10, 2025
Gary Police Sgt. Jamaal Joseph, 40, was arrested in Portage for domestic battery and operating a vehicle while intoxicated.
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Dec 10, 2025
IDEM hosted a public meeting Tuesday for an air permit that would allow 70 diesel generators at a Michigan City data center site.
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Dec 10, 2025
The Senate Judiciary Committee approved Tuesday an immigration bill that the Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita criticized as a "watered-down, bizzaro world" version of an immigration bill that died last session.
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Dec 10, 2025
Secret grand jury transcripts from Jeffrey Epstein's 2019 sex trafficking case can be made public, a judge ruled on Wednesday, joining two other judges in granting the Justice Department's requests to unseal material from investigations into the late financier's sexual abuse.
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Dec 10, 2025
The Trump administration must stop deploying the California National Guard in Los Angeles and return control of the troops to the state, a federal judge ordered Wednesday in an emphatic ruling.
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Dec 10, 2025
Will County Judge Brian Barrett said the state violated the time limit for trial on a forfeiture and ordered the return of property.
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Dec 10, 2025
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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Dec 10, 2025
More than six years after the FBI knocked on his door as part of a sprawling corruption investigation, former Summit police Chief John Kosmowski was convicted by a federal jury of taking a bribe from a local bar owner in exchange for assisting with a liquor license transfer.
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Dec 10, 2025
Foreigners who are allowed to come to the United States without a visa could soon be required to submit information about their social media, email accounts and extensive family history to the Department of Homeland Security before being approved for travel.
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Dec 10, 2025
Four Hobart homeowners have filed a lawsuit seeking to vacate multiple actions by Hobart city officials that have "prepared" the way for the possible construction of an Amazon data center on more than a square mile of farmland within city limits.
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Dec 10, 2025
A federal judge on Wednesday ruled to formally dismiss the case against a Lakeview comedy club manager whom federal authorities had accused of slamming the door on the leg of a Border Patrol agent during an October immigration arrest.
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Dec 10, 2025
After a nearly two-year legal fight, Ogden Dunes officials have dropped plans for a stone revetment along the Lake Michigan shoreline.
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Dec 10, 2025
Cook County Sheriff's Department officials said two off-duty deputies were shot at, but not hit, Wednesday morning while in front of Mount Sinai Hospital.
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Dec 10, 2025
Ald. Brian Hopkins said he will introduce a plan giving Chicago police Supt. Larry Snelling power to declare a teen curfew for an area with at least 12 hours notice.
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Dec 10, 2025
A Hammond woman got 2.5 years probation Wednesday in a plea deal for leaving the scene of a crash. Tianna Smith, 35, of Hammond, pleaded guilty in September to Leaving the Scene of an Accident with Moderate or Serious Bodily Injury.
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Dec 10, 2025
The council unanimously approved a resolution asking for 911 services to be added to the Indiana General Assembly's upcoming agenda.
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Dec 10, 2025
Crime reports from south and southwest suburban agencies from police and court reports and news releases.
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Dec 10, 2025
The federal government has agreed to extend until April a temporary restraining order requiring improved conditions at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement holding facility in Broadview.
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Dec 10, 2025
President Donald Trump's push for the largest mass deportation in history has had an outsized impact on the child care field.
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Dec 10, 2025
A Chicago police officer shot and killed a man who was attempting to flee in a stolen vehicle during a struggle with police officers Tuesday night, authorities said.
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Dec 10, 2025
A Chicago police officer shot and killed a man who was attempting to flee in a stolen vehicle during a struggle with police officers Tuesday night, authorities said.
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Dec 10, 2025
The House is expected to vote this week on a bill authorizing $900 billion for military programs, including boosting pay for service members, cutting Pentagon diversity efforts and requiring footage to be released of forces blowing up alleged drug boats.
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Dec 10, 2025
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told congressional leaders Tuesday that he was still weighing whether to release the full video of an attack on an alleged drug boat that killed two survivors, even as he faced intensifying demands from Congress for disclosure.
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Dec 10, 2025
A to-do list and travel plans found during Luigi Mangione's arrest and revealed in court this week shed new light on the steps he may have taken — or planned to take — to avoid capture after UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson's killing last year.
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Dec 10, 2025
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese welcomed a world-first social media ban for children younger than 16 that took effect Wednesday as families taking back power from tech giants but warned the implementation would be difficult.
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Dec 10, 2025
Ukraine is expected to hand its latest peace proposals to U.S. negotiators Wednesday, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, a day ahead of his urgent talks with leaders and officials from about 30 other countries supporting Kyiv's effort to end the war with Russia on acceptable terms.
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Dec 10, 2025
Good morning, Chicago. Here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Dec 10, 2025
The former president is in Chicago this week to check on construction of his presidential center, set to open next June.
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Dec 10, 2025
The former president is in Chicago this week to check on construction of his presidential center, set to open next June.
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Dec 10, 2025
On Dec. 10, 1967, singer Otis Redding, 26, and six others were killed when their plane crashed into a Wisconsin lake; trumpeter Ben Cauley, a member of the group the Bar-Kays, was the only survivor.
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Dec 10, 2025
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Dec. 10, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Dec 10, 2025
The donation from Don and Anne Edwards aims to speed research, treatment and diagnosis for children with rare and genetic disorders.
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Dec 09, 2025
Democrat Eileen Higgins won the Miami mayor's race on Tuesday, defeating a Republican endorsed by President Donald Trump to end her party's nearly three-decade losing streak and give Democrats a boost in one of the last electoral battles ahead of the 2026 midterms.
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Dec 09, 2025
Illinois' umbrella organization representing most of the state's organized labor opted not to make endorsements as the group has many allies and doesn't want to offend friends.
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Dec 09, 2025
The Metropolitan Alliance of Police and three Arlington Heights police officers filed suit against the northwest suburb, arguing that a new local ordinance tries to prevent sergeants from forming a union.
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Dec 09, 2025
After a group of homeowners filed suit claiming Cook County's tax sale process robbed them of home equity, a federal judge has ruled the current system unconstitutional.
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Dec 09, 2025
At least one person was killed and another was critically wounded in a shooting at Kentucky State University on Tuesday, and a suspect was in custody, police said.
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Dec 09, 2025
Some Calumet City aldermen said Monday they received conflicting information on expenses and event spending by Mayor Thaddeus Jones.
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Dec 09, 2025
Could Morgan Township High School be shut down in the future, East Porter County School Board member Natalie Bowersock asked during Monday's contentious board meeting. Staff members at Kouts told Bowersock they were left with that impression when Assistant Superintendent Alissa Schnick visited Kouts, but Schnick denied that she said anything about closing Morgan Township.
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Dec 09, 2025
After an Evanston church's ICE-protest Nativity scene was vandalized, it replaced the Joseph figure with a memorial to victims.
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Dec 09, 2025
Imprisoned former House Speaker Michael Madigan has become the latest high-profile Illinois Democrat to officially ask President Donald Trump for clemency on a corruption conviction, though it's unclear if Madigan has requested to be released from custody early.
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Dec 09, 2025
Imprisoned former House Speaker Michael Madigan has become the latest high-profile Illinois Democrat to officially ask President Donald Trump for clemency on a corruption conviction, though it's unclear if Madigan has requested to be released from custody early.
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Dec 09, 2025
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has reaffirmed his strong refusal to cede any territory, resisting U.S. pressure for painful concessions to Russia as he moved ahead Tuesday to rally more European support for his country.
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Dec 09, 2025
Mondelez said Tuesday that Oreo Zero Sugar and Oreo Double Stuf Zero Sugar will go on sale in the U.S. in January. They're a permanent addition to the company's Oreo lineup.
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Dec 09, 2025
Pope Leo XIV insisted Tuesday that Europe must have a role in any Ukraine peace deal and criticized what he said was the Trump administration's effort to "break apart" the long-standing U.S.-European alliance.
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Dec 09, 2025
A planned Chanukah celebration with a public menorah lighting is only the beginning for the new Chabad Jewish Center of Hinsdale.
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Dec 09, 2025
A Naperville police squad car was flipped onto its roof Monday night during a crash near Route 59 and 95th Street, officials said.
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Dec 09, 2025
Good afternoon, Chicago. Here's what is happening today.
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