President-elect Trump chose Linda McMahon, a former wrestling executive, to lead the Dept. of Education. McMahon has promised to overturn the very department she was hired to oversee.
A Florida man was arrested Wednesday and charged in a plot to bomb the New York Stock Exchange this week, according to the FBI.
A piece of conceptual art consisting of a banana duct-taped to a wall sold for $6.2 million at an auction in New York on Wednesday.
Weeks before a man allegedly fatally stabbed his estranged wife in a Portage Park attack that also injured a police officer, he appeared before a Cook County judge on accusations that he threw her to the ground and held her in his car, records show.
Earlier this month, the parents of Caitlin Tracey successfully won custody of her remains after arguing in court that her husband, Adam Beckerink, who was married to their daughter for six months, had a history of abusing her.
President Joe Biden has been notably quiet since the Democrats’ gut-wrenching defeat at the polls.
GOP congressman and others are challenging Illinois law requiring proper mail-in ballots be counted within two weeks after Election Day.
The suit targets an Illinois law that requires state-regulated health insurers to cover abortions and medications to terminate pregnancies.
More than two years after a fire gutted a Park Ridge condominium building, rendering the structure uninhabitable and displacing dozens of residents, some of them are calling for the city to step in and help speed up the rebuild so they can return home. A handful of residents of Bristol Court condos attended the Park Ridge City Council meeting Monday night to publicly question why their units still haven’t been rebuilt. “We are asking Park Ridge to provide a professional insurance mediator, specialized project manager or legal counsel,” resident Katie Dooley-Joyce told the council. She spoke during the public comment […]
Using a pulley and standing a safe distance back, a Chicago firefighter dropped a frozen bird into a turkey fryer with too much hot oil, splashing the viscous liquid everywhere. The oil swiftly ignited, and despite a quick reaction from another firefighter wielding a hose, bright orange flames as tall and wide as a CTA bus engulfed the fryer. “Thanksgiving is one of the year’s busiest days for fire departments, with cooking-related fires leading the charge,” said Chicago Fire Department Commissioner Annette Nance-Holt Wednesday morning at the turkey-fry-gone-wrong demonstration. As families gear up for Thanksgiving gatherings stuffed with gratitude and […]