City leaders are looking at adding more access points for emergency vehicles, rerouting CTA buses in severe weather and installing more observation cameras to avoid a repeat of February’s blizzard-driven meltdown that led to hundreds of vehicles…

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.

Federal environmental regulators today declared that Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood violates tough new limits on brain-damaging lead in the air, part of a crackdown on polluters in the predominantly Latino, low-income enclave.

It’s been nearly three years since Jeff Bondy said goodbye to his wife Kelley on a summer Sunday left for his job as an airfield operations supervisor at O’Hare International Airport and was killed by an alleged drunk driver who turned int…

Gov. Pat Quinn today threatened to shut down summer road construction if lawmakers don’t return to Springfield, a move critics contend is a “manufactured crisis.”

Admitted terrorist David Coleman Headley videotaped the tony streets of one of Copenhagen’s most fashionable districts as couples strolled, cyclists whizzed by and even a Queen’s guard marched on its scheduled route.

A coalition of Latino groups that had worked together for more representation in the state legislature fragmented today at a state Senate hearing over the effects of a proposed Democratic redrawing of Illinois’ legislative boundaries.

Vinicio Ezparza doesn’t expect to see the $5,500 he says he’s owed for construction work he did on a Darien pet store last year.

Ending a standoff between Chicago’s Roman Catholic archbishop and one of Chicago’s most famous Catholic priests, Cardinal Francis George lifted the suspension of the Rev. Michael Pfleger today and said he would visit St. Sabina Catholic Ch…

An error by a new air traffic controller is being blamed for a close call between two planes on a converging course at O’Hare International Airport this week, officials said today.