Two suspects fleeing from federal immigration officials crashed a vehicle near Warren High School in Gurnee Thursday morning and attempted to enter the school before being caught.

PEORIA — A jury on Wednesday convicted an Illinois sheriff’s deputy of second-degree murder, a lesser charge, in the shooting death of Sonya Massey, a Black woman who called 911 to report a suspected prowler. Sean Grayson could be sentenced to up t...

Make plans for Halloween events and trick-or-treating throughout the suburbs; Dia de Muertos events in Highland Park, Waukegan and Naperville; the 312 Comedy Fest in Chicago and more.

Authorities on Tuesday identified a pair of Chicago residents as the people killed in a two-vehicle crash Saturday night on Interstate 88 near North Aurora.

Hoan Huynh was going door-to-door informing businesses of ramped up immigration enforcement on Chicago’s North Side when the Democratic state lawmaker got an activist notification of federal agents nearby.

One person is dead and two others were injured Thursday morning when a freight train engine collided with a landscaping truck at the State Street crossing Elgin.

Halloween is on Friday, Oct. 31, and many communities have set trick-or-treating hours. Some towns also are hosting downtown trick-or-treating events.

Make plans now for Nightmare on Chicago Street in Elgin, Wheeling’s Taste of the Town, the last weekend of Night of 1,000 Jack-o’-Lanterns, Penn and Teller at the Chicago Theatre, Halloween events and trick-or-treating throughout the suburbs and more.

North Chicago police release identities of female Navy sailor and male suspect in apparent murder-suicide near Naval Station Great Lakes.