Cook County State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke announced a new policy Thursday, hoping to crack down on “switches" and ...

The policy change would mean that prosecutors could not agree to plea deals that do not include a prison sentence in any ...

Incumbent Mayor Daniel Biss promised supporters “four more years of bold experimentation” and a long-haul fight against President Donald Trump in a public ...

After Stephanie Laska wore the many hats of the Butler County Clerk position for close to five years, the Butler County Board ...

The apparent breakthrough started with a text message from Mayor Brandon Johnson to Pat Cleary, president of the Chicago ...

Tenant advocates and property managers agree that governments need to find solutions to address the affordable-housing crisis ...

Cook County Assessor Fritz Kaegi's latest valuation of Chicago’s urban core places more of the area’s tax burden on ...

NBC 5 Investigates discovered a loophole in the law that allows nitrous oxide to be sold in giant cannisters with flavors like bubblegum and watermelon in stores across Chicago and the suburbs or ...

A man accused of cutting a woman with a knife and hitting another in the parking lot of a Rochelle business will appear in Ogle County court again Feb. 6. Daniel Garcia-Aguado, 31, of Cicero, is ...

Macomb County Executive Mark Hackel isn’t happy he was served with a lawsuit at his residence by his oft-political foe, county Prosecutor Peter Lucido. Democrat Hackel about two weeks ago was served ...

Wiedeman is filling a vacant seat. The former Thornton Township employee, fired shortly after Supervisor Tiffany Henyard took ...