Seventy years ago this week, a hamburger joint named McDonald’s opened in northwest suburban Des Plaines. No one except for its Oak Park-raised owner Ray Kroc may have believed the tiny to-go place ...

Crews worked early Thursday to restore power to Puerto Rico after a blackout across the entire island that affected the main ...

Taverns and saloons were an integral part of Irish and German immigrants’ lives and social connections in the 19th century. Social Turners, a German American gymnastics club, founded its Chicago ...

President Donald Trump launched a devastating broadside against ex-Mayor Bill de Blasio and another former big-city mayor ...

Opponents have said an earlier curfew won't make a difference, and will just push the problem of teen takeovers to other neighborhoods.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said he would be willing to meet with President Donald Trump but offered some of his strongest ...

Two Chicago civil rights legends, former Mayor Harold Washington and activist Asa Philip Randolph, were honored on their shared birthday.

CHICAGO (AP) — Former President Joe Biden warned on Tuesday that President Donald Trump has “taken a hatchet” to Social ...

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker on Monday signaled he was open to testifying before a Republican-led congressional committee on the state’s so-called sanctuary policies for protecting immigrants, but hadn’t ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson and other progressives hope Chicagoans’ aversion to Donald Trump will boost their popularity. Unlikely.

Mayor Brandon Johnson has resisted efforts to codify rules banning lobbyists from donating to mayoral candidates and blasted ...

A New York City sightseeing helicopter broke apart and crashed into the Hudson River near the New Jersey shoreline, killing ...