The top brass in the U.S. attorney's office needs to figure out why they have had such a miserably low initial conviction ...

Standing outside the Bright Star Church amid a backdrop of supporters in her native Bronzeville neighborhood on Chicago’s ...

Just one day into her campaign to replace retiring Sen. Dick Durbin in the U.S. Senate, Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton on Friday ...

A federal judge on Thursday declared a mistrial in the case of state Sen. Emil Jones III, D-Chicago, after a jury deadlocked ...

Doug Belkin covers higher education and national news out of the Chicago bureau of The Wall Street Journal.

A 44-year-old man has been charged with murder and arson after a garage fire led to a collapse that killed a Chicago fire ...

There promises to be nothing boring about the Illinois race to replace U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, who will retire in 2027 after ...

Before announcing that the Bears were drafting tight end Colston Loveland Thursday night, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell ...