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McHenry County Clerk Joe Tirio erred by removing a referendum question from the November ballot that would have asked voters to abolish McHenry Township as a unit of government, Illinois appellate judges ruled Thursday.

To the prosecution, the witnesses who watched George Floyd's body go still were regular people going about their daily lives when they happened upon the ghastly scene of an officer kneeling on a man's neck

A prosecutor says Derek Chauvin 'œhad to know'� he was squeezing the life out of George Floyd as the Black man cried out over and over that he couldn't breathe

Officer Derek Chauvin "had to know" he was squeezing the life out of George Floyd as the Black man cried out over and over that he couldn't breathe and finally fell silent, a prosecutor told jurors Monday as closing arguments began at Chauvin's murder trial.

NASA's experimental helicopter Ingenuity rose into the thin air above the dusty red surface of Mars on Monday, achieving the first powered flight by an aircraft on another planet.

The NFL is making a more aggressive push into podcasting

Gary Lang, the owner of a McHenry car dealership, insisted Sunday a message that said criminals and new strains of COVID-19 are coming over the border that he displayed on his business' digital marquee last week was not racist, while also saying he was sorry many community members took it that way.

A Maine Township teen who had been missing since April 6 has returned home, the Cook County Sheriff's Office reported Monday.

Coca-Cola Co. says its sales are steadily improving as vaccination rates increase and restaurants and offices reopen around the world

Paul Davis, a onetime downstate Illinois news anchor who became an influential TV news executive at WGN-Channel 9, died Sunday. He was 82.

With the collapse of a competing offer for the parent company of the Chicago Tribune over the weekend, it's full speed ahead for Alden Global Capital in its bid to acquire complete control of Tribune Publishing.

More than 8 millions doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been given in Illinois, state health officials said Sunday, and 3,3 million state residents are now fully inoculated against the coronavirus.

Cantigny Park in Wheaton has become the first venue in the suburbs to provide EnChroma glasses for people with red-green colorblindness. EnChroma says the lenses are designed with optical filters to help people see certain colors more distinctly and vibrantly.

Whether the Lake County Fair will go this year depends on whether the state enters the "Bridge Phase," according to fair organizers.

The White House is pushing a $2 trillion infrastructure plan that ranges from repaving roads to delivering high-speed internet to promoting an electric car boom. What could it mean for the suburbs?

As his second term ends, Des Plaines Mayor Matthew Bogusz is ready to put politics behind him and spend more time with his family.

Four Aurora-area school districts are considering withdrawing from the John C. Dunham STEM Partnership School, a move that would effectively dissolve the highly touted program at the end of next academic year.

The Elgin community is mourning Chris Mau, owner of the "Doctor Who"-themed Blue Box Cafe, who died Saturday.

An early morning house fire Sunday in Streamwood left one resident injured and caused an estimated $200,000 in damage, fire officials said.

Local leaders are making widely different choices about suburban festivals this summer. Experts say it's important to keep wearing masks and socially distance.