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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A judge ruled Chicago illegally overcharged drivers for city sticker violations, exceeding a $250 state cap on municipal fines.

SPRINGFIELD — While the Chicago Bears consider legislative proposals from Illinois and Indiana lawmakers to decide which state should be home to its new stadium, the Chicago Park District has proposed ...

Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton’s call for an immediate increase in the federal minimum wage drew criticism at a debate from her two main rivals for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate, who each ...

Mr. Jackson, who spent much of his life in the city, died at his home there on Tuesday. “He ushered in new politics in Chicago,” one longtime organizer said. By Julie Bosman Reporting from Chicago In ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- This week, new moves in Springfield could pave the way for a new Chicago Bears stadium. According to ABC7 Chicago news partner the Daily Herald, the House bill, known as the ...

A Chicago teenager whose father was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement last year as she was sick with a rare form of cancer has died. Ofelia Torres died on Friday at the age of 16 ...

A veteran Chicago-area gym teacher was pushed out of his job over a two-word social-media post in support of ICE and calls the experience “devastating and surreal.” James Heidorn, a “beloved” longtime ...

FIRST ON FOX: A Chicago area teacher who was forced to resign from his position over his Facebook post saying "Go ICE" is speaking out about the emotional and financial toll he has suffered as a ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chicago police found three ATMs on the city's South Side on Sunday morning. Officers discovered the damaged ATMs around 10 a.m. near East 74th Street and South Ellis Avenue in the ...

Horrific video captured the moment two masked thugs viciously robbed and pummeled a 49-year-old man at gunpoint on a Chicago sidewalk in a brazen broad-daylight attack. The disturbing footage showed ...