Column: Dreaming of holiday gifts for the person who just wants 2020 to be...
The key question this holiday gift-giving season is simple: What do you get for the person who only wants this godforsaken year to end?
View Article17-year-old charged with killing his Hoffman Estates pot dealer 1 day after...
A 17-year-old Hoffman Estates boy has been charged with murder after prosecutors say he tried to rob his marijuana dealer, then killed the man the next day.
View ArticleIndiana COVID-19 hospitalizations near 1,900, new state high; Lake County...
The state’s coronavirus hospitalizations as of Monday marked a 95% jump in Indiana’s COVID-19 patients during the past month, the data show.
View ArticleTaco in a Bag and Cactus bar among latest Chicago restaurants closing due to...
Here is a running list of Chicago-area bars and restaurants that have closed for economic reasons due to the coronavirus pandemic.
View ArticleGOP candidate for Indiana AG, Todd Rokita, has COVID-19
The race for the Indiana attorney general’s office was the most-contested statewide campaign for this year’s election ballot.
View ArticleMail-in ballots processed at Chicago Board of Elections
Workers in the basement of the Chicago Board of Elections process mail-in ballots on Election Day, Nov. 3, 2020.
View ArticleBeecher fire destroys family home of South Chicago Heights nonprofit director
Fire crews aggressively attacked the fire, according to a news release from Beecher Fire Department, but were forced to spend “a great deal of time chasing the fire through the many concealed spaces of...
View ArticleThe Spin: Election Day — races to watch, waiting | Trump in Kenosha wonders...
Welcome to The Spin, the Chicago Tribune's politics newsletter.
View ArticleHolcomb wins reelection as Indiana governor: AP
Gov. Eric Holcomb won reelection and President Donald Trump appeared likely to also win the state.
View ArticleMayor Lori Lightfoot confronts activist in defense of Cook County Judge...
Mayor Lori Lightfoot mixed it up with an activist outside a Far North Side polling place over Cook County Judge Michael Toomin, accusing the woman of having her facts wrong and tossing in a shot at the...
View ArticleAP: Durbin wins Illinois U.S. Senate reelection as polls close
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin won reelection to a fifth term on Tuesday, continuing a pattern of Democratic dominance in the state, according to the Associated Press.
View ArticleCoronavirus in Illinois updates: 6,516 new known COVID-19 cases and 68...
Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus in the Chicago area and the rest of Illinois.
View ArticleChicago Tribune's presidential election front pages
What readers awoke to see on the front page of the Chicago Tribune following each presidential election from 1920 through 2020.
View ArticleChicago-area voters shatter records as they cast ballots with ‘a sense of...
In Chicago, more than 1 million city residents had voted early, by mail or in person on Election Day
View ArticleFreshman U.S. Rep. Lauren Underwood in tight race with Republican Jim...
Rep. Lauren Underwood takes on state Sen. Jim Oberweis, of Oberweis Dairy fame, for the U.S. House seat in Illinois' 14th Congressional District in the north and western suburbs. And in the west and...
View ArticleMarijuana ballot measures ahead in several Chicago suburbs including...
From legal cannabis sales to raising taxes for schools, many voters faced referendum questions on this fall's ballots.
View ArticleSpeaker Madigan dealt blow as Democratic Illinois Supreme Court Justice...
Speaker Madigan tested by billionaires in Illinois Supreme Court Justice Tom Kilbride retention battle.
View ArticleReferendum that would have closed late-night Tai’s Til 4 fails in Chicago’s...
Longtime late night Chicago bar Tai’s Til 4 will get to keep the party going until 4 a.m. in the Lakeview neighborhood, after an effort by neighbors to vote the precinct dry failed Tuesday by a wide...
View ArticleIllinois graduated income tax amendment runs into resistance in big bucks...
The fate of the “yes or no” referendum might remain unknown for days or weeks as late-arriving mail-in votes continue to be counted.
View ArticleIn Illinois, Biden wins across all broad demographic groups: AP survey of...
AP’s VoteCast is a survey of the American electorate conducted in all 50 states by NORC at the University of Chicago for The Associated Press and Fox News. The survey of an estimated 140,000 registered...
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