Illinois

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Pope Leo’s Illinois ties are part of a historic moment in U.S. election history.

Chicago rapper LoWick, 22, was killed in an FBI-involved shooting during a law enforcement operation in Dixmoor Wednesday, leaving his family questioning why agents opened fire.

The mother of a woman who vanished on a trip with her boyfriend in Illinois told Fox News Digital that "he has changed his story a couple times" as police search for her.

Two Chicago-area men are facing felony charges after the DEA seized more than 339 pounds of cocaine and $700,000 in cash from a suburban home.

American Girl has announced its 2027 Girl of the Year doll — and she's the first one from Wisconsin.

A Frankfort mother charged with murder in the hanging death of her 2-year-old son was ordered to remain in custody Tuesday as her case moves forward.

New details shed light on what happened inside a Frankfort home where a 2-year-old boy was found dead, as the child's mother faces first-degree murder charges.

What began as an 81-year-old homeowner’s fight over a denied insurance claim has turned into an outpouring of help, with filmmaker and actor Tyler Perry stepping in to pay the nearly $18,000 lien on Brenda Daurham’s home.

Sean Grayson, the former Illinois deputy convicted of killing Sonya Massey, has died while serving a 20-year prison sentence.

Multiple media reports state that two American Airlines planes that shared the same flight number almost got into a crash over Phoenix, but some quick thinking from air traffic control managed to prevent a catastrophe.

A 16-year-old boy and 15-year-old girl were charged in the killings of five members of an Illinois family in East St. Louis during the weekend, according to police.

Federal officials have filed charges against the man accused of assaulting a flight attendant and trying to escape a Frontier Airlines plane before passengers pinned him down while the plane was en route to Chicago earlier this week. 

COPA has released bodycam video from a January police shooting on Chicago's South Side involving a man accused of shooting a woman and firing at officers.

A suburban boy had planned to commit a school shooting and had a gun, ammunition and knives before being hospitalized on Friday, police say.

A Cubs fan who traveled to Los Angeles never made it back to Chicago. Jose Melesio was killed in a hit-and-run crash during the Cubs-Dodgers series in late April.

As cities across the U.S. continue to experiment with direct cash transfers, a prominent Chicago suburb is extending its guaranteed income program while simultaneously defending a first-of-its-kind reparations initiative that pays Black residents $25,000.

Nearly 100 Los Angeles shelter dogs were flown to Chicago for adoption to create space for over 300 animals seized in a Lake Hughes animal cruelty and hoarding investigation.