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While the Great Lakes region's leaders have put strict limits on who can access their prized resource, they are not always so disciplined about their own standards.

Rauner signs bill easing private takeover of water utilities, stirring outcry

December 12, 2018 at 6:57 p.m.

Gov. Bruce Rauner on Friday signed an amendment to a state water bill that makes it easier for private water companies to buy large water systems, a move critics say...

Police officers stand in front of demonstrators at the intersection of Belmont Avenue and Lake Shore Drive during a march from Lake Shore Drive to Wrigley Field on Aug. 2, 2018, to draw attention to Chicago's gun violence.

Protesters pray, chant outside Wrigley after anti-violence march briefly shuts down Lake Shore Drive

May 23, 2019 at 1:08 a.m.

A demonstration trumpeted as a way to deliver an anti-violence message to the more affluent North Side briefly shut down Lake Shore Drive during the Thursday afternoon rush and culminated...

25 years later, commutation and imprisoned father muddy case of slain IIT basketball player

May 23, 2019 at 1:06 a.m.

The boxes full of police interview reports and court transcripts paint a vivid narrative of Marshall “Butch” Morgan Jr.’s slaying. The Illinois Institute of Technology basketball player was shot three...

Republican U.S. Rep. Peter Roskam answers questions from the press after participating in an Illinois' 6th Congressional District forum with Democratic challenger Sean Casten at the Union League Club of Chicago on July 26, 2018.

Republican Rep. Roskam’s congressional re-election bid against Democrat Casten starts to heat up

May 15, 2019 at 5:00 p.m.

Moments after Republican U.S. Rep. Peter Roskam and Democratic challenger Sean Casten shook hands and chatted briefly at the posh Union League Club on Thursday, their first televised debate began...

Demonstrators gather outside an Illinois 6th Congressional District forum between Republican U.S. Rep. Peter Roskam and Democratic challenger Sean Casten outside the Union League Club of Chicago on July 26, 2018, in Chicago.

Roskam, Casten clash over Trump, taxes, abortion in first televised debate of fierce suburban race for Congress

May 15, 2019 at 5:00 p.m.

Republican U.S. Rep. Peter Roskam and Democratic challenger Sean Casten on Thursday split on abortion, guns, taxes, health care and President Donald Trump in the first televised debate of the...

The bulk of special counsel Robert Mueller 's indictment focuses on an alleged conspiracy to hack the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, but it also accuses Russian officers of targeting state boards of elections.

Illinois elections board ‘very likely’ named in Mueller indictment of Russian hackers, officials say

May 15, 2019 at 4:58 p.m.

The state’s voter registration database was “very likely” targeted by Russian hackers charged by special counsel Robert Mueller with interfering in the 2016 presidential campaign, the Illinois State Board of...

Under police escort, anti-violence protesters, organized by the Rev. Michael Pfleger, march down the Dan Ryan Expressway on July 7, 2018, in Chicago.

Anti-violence protesters shut down Dan Ryan: ‘Today was the attention-getter, but now comes the action’

August 22, 2019 at 4:29 a.m.

The showdown between police and the organizers of a march against gun violence culminated Saturday in the shadow of the 76th Street overpass on the Dan Ryan Expressway. For weeks,...

Diego Magalhaes, 10, gets in a vehicle after being reunited with his mother on Chicago's North Side on July 5, 2018.

2nd Brazilian boy held at Chicago shelter reunited with mom after judge’s ruling

July 5, 2018 at 9:30 p.m.

For the second time in a week, a federal judge in Chicago ordered a Brazilian boy reunited with his mother after the pair were separated at the United States’ southern...

<p>Sirley Silveira Paixao y su hijo, Diego Magalhaes se reunieron hoy en Chicago. </p>

Otro niño brasileño sale de un albergue de Chicago y se reúne con su madre

December 12, 2018 at 8:40 p.m.

Por segunda vez en una semana, un juez federal en Chicago ordenó que un niño brasileño fuera reunido con su madre, después de que fueron separados en la frontera sur...

Chicago Teachers Union leader says its mission will continue, ‘the Supreme Court be damned’

May 15, 2019 at 4:57 p.m.

Chicago Teachers Union Vice President Jesse Sharkey said Wednesday that the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in a major organized labor case is an “attack on public-sector unions across the whole...

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