Initial results released just after 8 p.m. Tuesday for the District 3 race show Leacock with 19,845 votes and Democratic incumbent Lucy Chang Evans with 17,571 votes. For District 5, Haider so far had ...

With only early ballots counted, preliminary numbers show approval support for the Forest Preserve District of DuPage County’s referendum to bump taxes so it can expand and maintain land, per early ...

Cook County state’s attorney Democratic candidate Eileen O’Neill Burke poses for a photo with Gloria Batey at Manny’s Deli in the West Loop on Election Day. (Eileen T. Meslar/Chicago Tribune) Cook ...

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Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris, Republican former President Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are on the ...

Polls closed Tuesday evening in Chicago’s first school board elections, where 10 local races have high stakes for Mayor Brandon Johnson and the powerful Chicago Teachers Union. Though they began as ...

The race for president tops the list of federal, state and local contests in Illinois, where voters have supported the ...

Recognizing the aging dispatch center at the Waukegan Police Station needed an overhaul, city director of communications Tom Perfect said he found a location at the Waukegan International Airport ...

The last several Conservative prime ministers have had relatively brief tenures, punctuated by Prime Minister Liz Truss, who ...

A Hammond man was granted bail on Oct. 25 after his lawyer argued a surveillance tape of the shooting could have been “altered” or left with gaps.

A Hammond woman faces charges after fatally stabbing her boyfriend, court records allege. Stacy M. Smith, 47, was charged Sept. 17 with murder in 53-year-old Tommy Washington III’s March 24 death.

Police said a 16-year-old from Valparaiso died Monday evening after the bicycle he was riding was struck by an SUV on a ...