A Portage man drowned Saturday after he may have fallen from a kayak, according to the Porter County Coroner’s Office.

Chicago police are searching for the parents of two young sisters who were found alone on the street in the South Shore neighborhood late Sunday night.

Delivery fees charged to Chicago restaurants by third-party delivery companies such as GrubHub and Uber Eats would get capped at 10% of the order’s cost while indoor dining capacity is set at below 40% during the coronavirus pandemic under a proposal introduced to the City Council Monday.

A bicyclist was killed in a hit-and-run crash in Aurora Saturday evening, and authorities are searching for a vehicle wanted in connection, police said.

PEORIA — Thanksgiving 2020 will be different because of COVID-19, with dine-in options shut down under mitigations from the state.You may not be able to go to a restaurant on Thanksgiving Day, but some area restaurants have a plan to come to you.There are a range of meal options, including turkey, ham, green bean casserole, cranberry sauce, dressing, pumpkin pie, cheesecake, cinnamon rolls, ...

PEORIA -- Guitar Center intends to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. But the musical-instrument retailer, which has a store in Peoria, also intends to remain in business.Reports over the weekend suggested Guitar Center has negotiated with its investors a deal that reduces its debt.The California-based retailer has about 300 Guitar Center outlets, ...

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PEORIA -- A man was found dead on a sidewalk in an apartment complex just south of Downtown Peoria late Sunday night.Peoria police were called to the area of the 700 block of North Hillyer Place which is near the Landmark Apartments. A ShotSpotter alert indicated that five rounds were fired in that area at about 11:04 p.m.Additionally, a person called and reported hearing shots fired in the Landma...

After backing losing candidate for state’s attorney, Chicago’s largest police union makes big plans for governor’s and mayor’s races

Chicago considers changes to emergency mental-health response as recent police cases highlight the issue

It’s laughable to hear Republicans complain about being disenfranchised, Dahleen Glanton writes.

An employee tax aimed at online giant Amazon and other big retailers is among the proposals progressive aldermen will bring forward Monday to balance Chicago’s 2021 budget. With Mayor Lori Lightfoot fighting behind the scenes to get the 26 votes she needs to pass her spending plan, different City Council groups will bring forward their own plans in coming weeks to try to put their imprint on the f...

MORTON – Jason and Amanda Parker wanted to open a tattoo parlor in their hometown.The Morton residents picked what they thought was the perfect spot, an empty lower-level space downtown at 142 S. Main St. that once was the home of Miller Bakery, an iconic village business.They picked the name American Traditional Tattoo for their parlor. American traditional is a style of tattoo."We felt the...

When Justice Robert Carter, who is slated to become the newest member of the Illinois Supreme Court in December, was a chief circuit judge, he would remind the nascent trial judges to be humble in their new role."I always told the new judges that everything you do should be done with the greatest amount of humility because you don't have all the answers. You're just trying to do the best based on ...

The restrictions will begin Wednesday and last three weeks. They are not as sweeping as when the Democratic governor issued a stay-at-home order last spring but are extensive.

Double lung transplant surgery has now been done successfully seven times at the Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago.

A 32-year-old man was critically injured during a Far South Side house fire, according to Chicago police.

Three people, including a 14-year-old girl, were injured during a shooting at a South Side dance studio Sunday night, according to Chicago police.

The Cook County sheriff’s office is cancelling all in-person visits to the county jail starting Monday because of the recent spike in coronavirus cases, the sheriff’s office said Sunday.

The latest numbers released by the Illinois Gaming Board show bettors in the state wagered more than $285 million on sports contests in September.

A rollover crash near the Gold Coast neighborhood sent one person to the hospital and slowed traffic Sunday night on Lake Shore Drive, officials said.

At-Large City Councilman Sid Ruckriegel on Sunday joined a growing field of candidates for Peoria mayor."I love Peoria and believe City Hall can do much better to improve the perception of opportunity and vision in our city," he said.Bringing together diverse perspectives will be a key theme in his campaign, he suggested – repeatedly returning to the theme that Peoria is a city in which, "wh...

The Illinois Department of Public Health reported 10,631 newly confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 in the state Sunday, including 72 additional deaths.It marked the 10th day in a row case totals have exceeded 10,000. The 7-day rolling positivity rate in the state is 12.8%.As of Saturday night, 5,474 people in Illinois were reported ...

Mayor Lori Lightfoot doubles down on property tax hike in private meeting, tells Chicago aldermen not to record her

One of the perennial certainties of any election season is how pundits chew over the politics of losing campaigns rather than discuss the policy implications of winning campaigns.The biggest reason is the cleanliness of who’s up and who’s down, as opposed to a messy dive into the greasy nuance of what victory means to legislative sausage making.That is especially so for U.S. farm polic...

MARRIAGESTazewell County* Ryan Bridson, 41, Maquon; Lanell Demmin, 39, Hanna City.* Zakry Cummings, 22, Bedford, Ind.; Marissa Barber, 21, Peoria.* Evan DeHart, 21, Danvers; Danielle Atherton, 20, Minier.* Brandon Horchem, 24, Pekin; Payton Colvin, 21, South Pekin.* David Hughes, 81, Washington; Priscilla Lewis, 78, Peoria.* Jerad Litherland, 35; Cydnee Martin, 32; both Tremont. ...

WYOMING — A long-weekend break in classes in the Stark County School District appears to have succeeded in snapping a string of COVID-19 cases that had threatened to disrupt the in-school instruction that has taken place for the past 13 weeks, according to the top administrator.After six students and three staff had earlier tested positive for the disease in instances of outside community tr...

LACON — Marshall County has reported its fifth death related to COVID-19, while neighboring Bureau County has reached a total of 27 deaths, public health officials announced Sunday.And those deaths are accompanied by new cases that are "rising at an alarming rate" in the area served by the Bureau, Putnam & Marshall County Health Departments, according to the administrator of the agency t...

The family of Ryan Bost is asking anyone information about his murder to come forward.