Attorneys and members of the Evanston/Skokie School District 65 community filed a legal objection Friday demanding that the district withdraw or defer action on its Financial Sustainability Plan, which includes a proposal to close Dewey and Lincolnwood elementary schools.

It’s the countdown to the midterms — will a federal presence at the polls affect voting? And Chicago City Council budget hearings get off to a rocky start.

The time change means people will be driving more in the dark, which unfortunately coincides with a period when certain animals are particularly active.

In Chicago, 126,320 in-person early vote ballots were cast through Thursday, a 35% increase from the same time during the 2022 general election, according to data from the Chicago Board of Elections.

Leo XIV has become the first pope to vote in a U.S. general election, casting a mail-in ballot in a contest that will decide America’s future as the Trump era slowly comes to an end.

Northeastern Illinois is facing mounting challenges as the region sees an uptick in severe weather, an aging population and evolving technological needs.

The Trump administration is demanding changes to the way the Illinois State Board of Education handles student recordkeeping and mental health screenings, claiming that it may violate federal law.

For the last 200 years, Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” — and all of the novel’s subsequent adaptations — has resonated with vast audiences. Now, Shelley’s own life story gets to be front and center alongside the monster of a story she created.

One on one with Mayor Brandon Johnson on his budget proposal. And a stage adaptation of “Frankenstein” comes to life.

Mayor Brandon Johnson is fighting for his political life on two fronts.

Patrick Stewart, the classically trained stage actor who scaled the Shakespearean canon and added gravitas to a “Star Trek” franchise and the “X-Men” films, has died. He was 86.

Democrats, election officials and voting rights groups have long wondered whether President Donald Trump would again attempt to overturn an election when his party is trailing. It’s no longer hypothetical.

A federal appeals court will decide whether to revive a lawsuit brought by President Donald Trump that sought to invalidate state, city and county laws designed to protect undocumented immigrants in Chicago by prohibiting local law enforcement officials from helping federal agents.

Elected officials and civic leaders officially broke ground on the long-awaited DuSable Park, which has been decades in the making.

The Chicago Bears acquired All-Pro defensive tackle Jeffery Simmons in a blockbuster trade with the Tennessee Titans on Thursday.