The Illinois treasurer’s office announced today that it will offer refunds to families who were disappointed to learn that contributions to their Bright Start college savings accounts would not be matched.

Prisoner has spent 15 years behind bars for Waukegan businessman’s death A new DNA test of blood evidence from the 1994 murder of a prominent Waukegan businessman has been found to match someone other than the man who has served 15 years in prison for…

An international Christian radio and television network based in West Frankfort in southern Illinois and the brother of the network’s founder were named in a federal child-sex-abuse lawsuit filed in Chicago today.

A 5-year-old boy died this evening after he was rescued from the Jackson Park Yacht Harbor on the South Side, officials said.

A man was critically injured this evening by police after he began shooting at a Father’s Day celebration at a South Side and then attempted to shoot the officers, officials said.