New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Thursday said he will pull out of the city’s Democratic primary and instead run for reelection as an independent, arguing that his recently dismissed federal bribery case had made it impossible to mount a primary campaign.
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Segregationist Strom Thurmond’s senate-speech record was broken by Booker, a man whose rights he fought to deny.
Conditions have varied during season openers at the Wrigley Field. Here’s what to expect, plus the warmest and coldest home openers for the Chicago Cubs.
A group of Chicago firefighters have accused the city and the Chicago Fire Department of violating their Fourth and 14th Amendment rights during a set of vehicle searches in late February.
On April 3, 1974, an outbreak of tornadoes began hitting wide parts of the South and Midwest before jumping across the border into Canada; 148 tornadoes caused more than 300 fatalities in what became known as the 1974 Super Outbreak.
Dozens of tornado and severe thunderstorm warnings were issued in parts of Arkansas, Illinois, Missouri and Mississippi as storms hit those and other states in the evening.
A Northwest Indiana jury acquitted a Chicago man Wednesday night in a deadly 1999 cold case stabbing. The jury deliberated for less than two hours.
A Hammond woman was sentenced to seven years Wednesday in a plea deal for taking over selling meth after her son was jailed for it.
At close of trade mission to Mexico, Gov. JB Pritzker positions Illinois as a ‘stable and reliable trade partner’ amid President Donald Trump’s tariffs.