Illinois

The family of a late firefighter in Illinois is honoring his memory with a new photoshoot featuring his newborn baby girl.

The remains of a suburban Chicago soldier killed in an attack on a military base in Kenya arrived Wednesday in his home town.

Dispensaries across the state have rendered 271,169 transactions since cannabis was legalized on January 1, 2020 – totaling exactly $10,830,667.91 in sales.

Two other Americans, both contractors with the U.S. Department of Defense, were also killed Sunday by al-Shabab extremists at Manda Bay Airfield.

Illinois rang in the new year by officially legalizing the sale of recreational marijuana, raking in nearly $3.2 million in sales on its first day, state officials announced Thursday.

Margaret Cortes said she hopes to employ others with disabilities at the Illinois bakery in the future.

Two toddlers died early Thursday after a woman allegedly stabbed her grandfather, tossed one child out a window and then jumped from an 11th-floor South Shore apartment — leaving the other child scalded in a bathtub, Chicago police said.

Greg Zanis has memorialized Chicago shooting victims. He's also crisscrossed the country by pick-up delivering over 27,000 crosses to victims of mass shootings, tornadoes and wildfires.

Police have charged a 33-year-old man with murder, attempted murder and related charges in connection to a double stabbing at a family party in Olney on Christmas morning.

The girl was struck in the torso and taken to Stroger Hospital in critical condition, police said.

Chicago police say 13 people were shot at a house party on the city's South Side and four are critically injured

Demond Weston insists he was beaten as a teenager by detectives during a 12-hour interrogation about a murder and other shootings.

A baby named Paul Fronczak who famously was kidnapped one day after he was born at a Chicago hospital in 1964 reportedly has been found living in rural Michigan under another identity.

16-year-old Angie Monroy was shot in the head on Saturday in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood.

About 7:15 a.m., officers and fire officials responded to calls of a vehicle in the water in the 900 block of North Lake Shore Drive, Chicago police said.

“The Cook County medical examiner’s office has determined that additional studies are required to establish the cause and manner of death for 21-year-old Jarad A. Higgins,” a Cook County spokeswoman said.

Chicago Bears linebacker Khalil Mack is delivering Christmas cheer to residents of his Florida hometown by paying off all the holiday layaway accounts at a local Walmart.

Authorities have not released details about his cause of death.

The two met up to “conduct a sale” about 5:45 p.m. Friday in the 2300 block of South Drake, police said.