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Highs of 109 degrees Fahrenheit forecast for Saturday and 110 F (43.3 C) on Sunday in Dallas would break the current record of 107 F each day

The parliament has no formal powers of any sort. For all its diversity and global scope, attendees lean more progressive than conservative

The shooting happened Saturday night in Chicago’s Portage Park neighborhood

Biles competes for the first time since Tokyo in the U.S. Classic in suburban Chicago on Saturday

After the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, the biochemist escaped Russia and joined the National Cancer Research Center in Madrid to find a cure for pancreatic cancer

Warmer air over metropolitan areas combined with many square miles of impermeable concrete add up to intensifying storms that generate billions of gallons of run-off rainfall with nowhere to go

The legendary Italian director reflects on the past, present, and future of classical music following his farewell concerts as conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra

The 64-year-old singer is hospitalized in New York due to a bacterium, as confirmed by her agent. Her tour was set to begin in two weeks and was going to take her to 35 cities

A National Weather Service meteorologist says fires in northern Quebec and low pressure over the eastern Great Lakes are sending smoke to Michigan, Wisconsin and Illinois

Authors, scholars and librarians have gathered as several states push to restrict access to books in schools and libraries, overwhelmingly those about race, ethnicity and LGBTQ+ topics

About nine in 10 Democrats and Republicans agree about the importance of values like compassion, personal responsibility and fairness. But only about a third of either party sees those values reflected on the other side

‘World Travel: An Irreverent Guide’, Bourdain’s posthumously released book, gives readers an atlas to the places he considered the most culinarily important

Most large American cities are reporting fewer homicides this year, according to data collected by the Council on Criminal Justice, which created a Crime Trends Working Group this spring in hopes of providing more real-time information on crime

The findings released Tuesday by Attorney General Kwame Raoul come from a sweeping state investigation that began in 2018

The sheriff’s office said the explosion, which brought down some power lines at the plant in Chicago’s southwestern suburbs, may have been ‘from an asphalt tank’

The selection is intended to keep the party’s momentum going after last fall’s midterm election success in the critical Midwest

The tornado was part of a powerful weather system moving through the Midwest and South

He defeated former Chicago schools CEO Paul Vallas, who was backed by the police union

The U.S. Census Bureau released its latest population estimates on Thursday

First held in 1762, before America’s independence, the parade is the oldest and largest in the world

Starting next year, Illinois employers must offer workers paid time off based on hours worked, with no need to explain the reason for their absence

The settlement is the latest payout from the embattled e-cigarette giant, which laid off hundreds of workers and settled thousands of lawsuits last year

Nationwide, schools report that about 10% of students are receiving ‘high-dosage’ tutoring multiple days a week, according to a federal survey from December

All the military services are struggling to compete for young people in a tight job market where private companies are often willing to provide better pay and benefits

Scientists are racing to perfect new battery chemistries that don’t lose as much energy in cold weather as today’s lithium-ion systems

Candidates Paul Vallas and Brandon Johnson will meet in a runoff to succeed her at the helm of America’s third-largest city

In California, the National Weather Service said winter storms will continue moving into the state through Wednesday