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A bus of migrants arrives at a new shelter near South Halsted Street and West Cermak Road on Oct. 3, 2023, in Chicago.

Residents’ uprising leads to rejection of multimillion dollar grant for migrant services in Joliet area

March 11, 2024 at 12:30 p.m.

Suburban and downstate communities must address how to handle arriving immigrants amid a backlash that saw Joliet Township decline a state grant for migrants after angry residents said they opposed...

Flowering cannabis plants are illuminated by artificial lighting at a tour given by workers at Prescribd, a cannabis cultivation company, at one of its cultivation centers on July 17, 2021, in Bridgeview.

Marijuana-related car crashes, preterm births, and accidental ingestion by kids on rise since legalization in Illinois, study shows

October 21, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

Marijuana legalization in Illinois has come with increased pot-involved deadly crashes, a rise in accidental ingestion among children, an association with psychotic disorders, and increases in preterm births by mothers...

Carlos Acosta listens to McHenry County State's Assistant Attorney Randi Freese as she delivers the state's closing argument during the trial for former Illinois Department of Children and Family Services employees Acosta and Andrew Polovin before Lake County Judge George Strickland on Oct. 13, 2023, at the McHenry County Courthouse.

In what may be state’s first conviction of its kind, ex-DCFS worker guilty of endangerment in death of AJ Freund; supervisor not guilty

June 6, 2024 at 2:12 p.m.

In what is believed to be the first successful prosecution of its kind in Illinois, a former child welfare worker was found guilty Friday of child endangerment in the beating...

Woman pleads guilty but mentally ill in stabbing death of Algonquin couple in 2020

October 11, 2023 at 8:22 p.m.

A woman has pleaded guilty but mentally ill to first-degree murder in the deaths of an elderly couple who were killed in their home in Algonquin in 2020, McHenry County...

The Chicago skyline seen from over Lake Michigan on Sept. 14, 2023.

Illinois population becoming higher-paid, more foreign-born, but state losing older, Black and rural residents, study finds

October 10, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

Illinois is becoming less rural, more educated, more foreign-born, and higher-paid, according to a new analysis of migration patterns. A net loss of 460,000 residents moving to other states was...

Karina Archundia, left, a migrant from Ecuador, greets volunteer Celine Woznica with a hug and kiss as she and other migrants who are staying at a police station in Austin eat, shower and socialize at the rectory at St. Catherine of Siena-St. Lucy Catholic Church in Oak Park on Oct. 5, 2023.

State money to help migrant assistance in the suburbs comes with both appreciation and wariness

October 6, 2023 at 11:55 a.m.

Local officials usually welcome money from the state, but recent grants to Chicago suburbs to address an influx of migrants met with some backlash, highlighting how controversial the issue has...

The former Rainforest Cafe in River North on Oct. 1, 2023.

Marijuana dispensary in former Rainforest Cafe won flip-flop from state regulators, but remains on hold as one man fights against it

October 3, 2023 at 8:18 a.m.

The former Rainforest Cafe in Chicago once featured a costumed frog named Cha Cha selling beef lava nachos. Plans now call for a new business on the site to instead...

Jackson Park Golf Course on Sept. 22, 2023. Plans to redesign it as a PGA-caliber course have stalled.

Plans for Tiger Woods golf project near Obama Presidential Center have stalled, but hopes remain for restoration of existing courses

October 1, 2023 at 4:58 p.m.

While the Obama Presidential Center is rising in Chicago's Jackson Park, a closely related project favored by the former president continues to languish. Backers still hope to resurrect the grand...

Jury awards family $5.5 million in death of mom who went without supplemental oxygen at Palos Heights nursing home

September 26, 2023 at 7:03 p.m.

A jury has awarded a $5.5 million verdict against a former Palos Heights nursing home in the death of a woman who lost her supplemental oxygen when power went out...

Judge Mary Marubio speaks as county officials meet about bond reform during a panel discussion at Loyola University in Chicago, Sept. 7, 2023.

New bail reform ‘isn’t going to be perfect,’ court players and advocates say as changes are set to take effect

September 17, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

The night before historic bail reforms were set to take effect on Jan. 1, Cook County court officials and workers were poised to implement the new system after years of...

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