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He was a good son and friend, a force to be reckoned with on the football field and an aspiring chef who burned a few meals, said the family and friends of an eighth grade boy.That camaraderie and those dreams faded away Thursday after 13-year-old Samee

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. A new report says the state finished the first three months of its budget year with a mountain of unpaid bills and record payment delays.

A judge in Chicago says the state doesn't have time to reprint the November ballots to fix inaccurate language.

Violent crime in Chicago continues unabated this year, with the latest unofficial statistics showing that there were 316 more shootings in the city through August.

A sixth grade boy and a 20-year-old man were shot Wednesday inside a grocery store in the 2500 block of East 106th Street, police said.

The city of Chicago wants to join the trend toward banning text messaging while driving.

State Sen. James Meeks, D-15th, brought his message of school funding reform to the Friendly Confines.

In the past year, 97 South Side residents, most of them Black, have found permanent and temporary employment thanks to a relatively new job readiness program.

About 1,000 city employees could be laid off and 3,000 vacant positions eliminated under Mayor Richard Daley’s effort to balance the city’s budget. Union leaders briefed on the plan say about 300 members of the Laborers Union Local 1001, whose

Now that rising cleanup costs have forced the city to rethink its plans for the proposed $1.1 billion Olympic Village, Bronzeville residents are pushing to relocate the project outside the community altogether.