The U.S. Justice Department program started in 2001 to try to secure stiffer prison sentences for gun offenders. Up to now in ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chicago workers making minimum wage are set to get a raise starting next month. Starting July 1, the city's minimum wage will be $16.60 and the minimum wage for subsidized youth ...

A long-running federal anti-violence program will be expanding to downtown Chicago and mass transit for the first time this ...

Chicago may not have the Eiffel Tower or gondolas, but for couples in the know, it offers something better: surprise. The ...

The attacker used a makeshift flamethrower and yelled "free Palestine," the FBI says. Eight people were hospitalized.

Lawmakers depart Springfield without funding $770 million needed to cover holes in regional transit agencies' budgets. CTA ...

It's only three days a week, but there didn't seem to be much response, with one of the employee unions, Local 21, saying ...

Hinsdale and Clarendon Hills are giving area residents the opportunity to attend free summer concerts on Wednesdays and ...

Eleven people were hospitalized after being stabbed at a homeless services provider in downtown Salem, Oregon.

Pride Month, a global celebration of LGBTQ+ people, is starting this weekend in many places. It's always a mixture of party ...

While we're told to "be more human" in the age of AI, maybe we should be taking notes from North America's scrappiest ...

The 22-year-old Bessemer City High School graduate, whose family moved to the U.S. from Togo, Africa in 2007, was fatally ...