Just three months after the last elections, a group of Chicago-area communities will be holding primary elections this week.

As Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency crew worked last week to download and rummage through massive tranches of ...

Treasurer’s website offers easy way to update property tax bill name and address information. You may not look forward to ...

The Supreme Court ruled in May 2023 that tax sales as they've been practiced in several states unconstitutionally rob ...

Any slash to Medicaid's budget could hit lowest income families hardest.

Several counties switched places from 2023’s ranking, which named these the 10 poorest Illinois counties: Alexander, Pulaski, Franklin, Saline, Gallatin, Hardin, Vermilion, Knox, Wabash and Lawrence.

One woman was killed and another injured Saturday night in a Near North Side shooting. Police responded to a residential ...

Three Cook County residents are being detained after allegedly stealing a high-end SUV and leading police on a high-speed ...

Soul vocalist Jerry Butler, a.k.a. "The Iceman" died on February 20, 2025, at the age of 85. He had been fighting Parkinson's ...

A 39-year-old man was arrested in northwest Indiana Friday morning after an Amber Alert and stabbings that left a mother dead and two young brothers critically injured.

Jerry Butler, the original lead singer of the R&B and soul group The Impressions, has died. He was 85. The Mississippi-born ...

Cook County Assessor Fritz Kaegi announced the filing of a new bill in the Illinois Legislature aimed at providing property ...