In the latest case to be settled, the Chicago City Council agreed Wednesday to pay $15.4 million to Robert Smith Jr., who ...

After a career spent largely in the shadows, Field Museum ornithologist Dave Willard is enjoying a moment in the spotlight ...

The Department of the Interior, which oversees national parks, announced recently it was unveiling “commemorative new designs ...

Senators rejected a Democratic bill to extend the subsidies for three years and a Republican alternative that would have ...

The president has urged GOP-led states to gerrymander their U.S. house districts ahead of the midterms to create more ...

Top military officials faced questioning over the deployments for the first time at the hearing before the Senate Armed ...

The family of Chicago police Officer Krystal Rivera, who was fatally shot in the line of duty this year by a fellow officer, says the shooting came after she broke off a romantic relationship with her ...

Incredibly unusual, the use of U.S. forces to seize a merchant ship was a sharp escalation in the Trump administration’s pressure campaign on President Nicolás Maduro, who has been charged with ...

Cook County has its first new chief judge in more than two decades after Charles Beach was sworn in to the position earlier this month.

Conflict in the Caribbean escalates as the U.S. seizes an oil tanker. And the new Cook County chief judge on his vision for the future.

The FBI’s Chicago field office on Wednesday said it is seeking to identify other potential victims of 44-year-old Luis Uribe, ...

Every Thursday, WTTW News newsletter producer Josh Terry highlights his picks for the week’s must-see cultural events.