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An 18-year-old man faces between 45 years to life in prison when he is sentenced today in Cook County Criminal Court for the 2007 murder of a Chicago Public Schools student.

Multiple unrelated shootings on the West Side on Sunday evening left nine injured, including a 9-year-old girl and three teens.

Fire officials are blaming a chemical reaction for an explosion at a Chicago food manufacturing plant that left two workers injured — one seriously.

Commuter train lines in Chicago are back in business after officials closed them as a precaution following a factory explosion.

JOLIET, Ill. — Authorities in Will County say they've found a live bat that has rabies.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn brags that he got more money in the state budget for social services than lawmakers originally sent him.

Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn has formed an oversight task force for the state's cemeteries as authorities continue to investigate a historic Black graveyard in suburban Chicago where bodies were allegedly dug up and the plots resold in a money-making scheme.

Between midnight and 1 a.m. Friday, five people were shot, one fatally, in three separate incidents.

A Chicago man who tried to pay an undercover police officer to murder his former wife has been denied bond.

DEKALB, Ill.— Northern Illinois University has won a $190,000 federal grant.