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CHICAGO (AP) — Prosecutors say a man who fatally shot five co-workers at an Illinois warehouse took the gun and ammunition into the plant when he arrived that morning. The Kane County State’s Attorney’s office said in the report released Monday that it found law enforcement officers

WOODSTOCK, Ill. (AP) — An Illinois mother and father charged in their 5-year-old son’s murder have agreed to let the state’s child welfare agency care for their younger son. JoAnn Cunningham and Andrew Freund Sr.’s younger son was taken into Illinois Department of Children and

CHICAGO (AP) — A report on the February shooting at a suburban Chicago manufacturing plant found that the man who killed five people after he was fired told another employee that if he lost his job he would kill other workers and “blow police up.” The Kane County State’s

CHICAGO (AP) — U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth has returned to Iraq for the first time since the helicopter she was piloting was shot down during Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2004. The Illinois Democrat said Friday that she led a bipartisan congressional delegation on a “whirlwind” trip

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago’s top prosecutor has been subpoenaed to appear in court by a retired appellate judge who’s pushing for a special prosecutor to investigate the handling of the case against actor Jussie Smollett. Sheila O’Brien also subpoenaed Cook County State’s

CHICAGO (AP) — A man who fatally shot a would-be carjacker in Chicago won’t be charged with any crime after police determined he acted in self-defense. Chicago Police say that an investigation revealed the 41-year-old man was a concealed carry license holder who drew his weapon and fired

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Former Illinois House Majority Leader Barbara Flynn Currie has been named to the Pollution Control Board by Gov. J.B. Pritzker. Currie, who is replacing board member U-Jung Choe, who was appointed by Gov. Bruce Rauner in 2018. Currie’s term ends June 30,

CHICAGO (AP) — Officials with Illinois’ child-welfare agency said Friday they are reviewing cases involving the state’s youngest children in which caseworkers found insufficient evidence of abuse or neglect, after the beating death of a 5-year-old boy with a long history of contact

CHICAGO (AP) — Rob Pruitt calls it a “monument of a movement.” Visitors to the Stony Island Arts Bank in Chicago will see 2,922 portraits of former President Barack Obama. “The Obama Paintings” is Rebuild Foundation’s newest exhibit. Pruitt painted Obama’s

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The recently departed ethics watchdog of the Illinois General Assembly said Wednesday she was refused permission to publish a substantiated report of wrongdoing by a legislator in a system she described as broken. Julie Porter, who was the interim legislative inspector