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Mayor Lori Lightfoot is considering possible cuts of up to $200 million in Chicago’s city government workforce to help fill an estimated $1.2 billion budget deficit for 2021, sources told the Tribune. The $200 million total could include a mix furloughs and layoffs, though sources said the figure is tentative and could change ahead of…

A convicted bookmaker with longstanding ties to the Chicago Outfit has been charged once again with running illegal sports betting business. Top Featured Tags: – Illinois News Press Release Distribution Service

The still-infectious president surprised supporters who had gathered outside the hospital. Secret Service agents inside the vehicle could be seen in masks and other protective gear. Top Featured Tags: – Illinois News Press Release Distribution Service

Investors who won a chance for a license to sell recreational marijuana in Illinois have filed a lawsuit asserting it’s illegal to give other applicants a second chance. Top Featured Tags: – Illinois News Press Release Distribution Service

Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus in the Chicago area and the rest of Illinois. Top Featured Tags: – Illinois News Press Release Distribution Service

A student at Highland Park High School tested positive for COVID-19. Top Featured Tags: – Illinois News Press Release Distribution Service

The city’s first recreational marijuana store, Rise Naperville, is scheduled to open Thursday, with profits from first-day sales going to a local anti-hunger agency. Top Featured Tags: – Illinois News Press Release Distribution Service

President Donald Trump’s doctor says he is doing “very well” as he spends the weekend at a military hospital for treatment of COVID-19. Top Featured Tags: – Illinois News Press Release Distribution Service

Three people are dead, and at least 11 others were wounded in shootings since Friday afternoon, Chicago police said. Top Featured Tags: – Illinois News Press Release Distribution Service

One dead, and at least four people were displaced early Saturday morning in a fire in the Lawndale neighborhood on the West Side, Chicago police said. Top Featured Tags: – Illinois News Press Release Distribution Service

Over the course of the pandemic, the Tribune has chronicled stories of those most affected by COVID-19. Here’s an update on several of them. Top Featured Tags: – Illinois News Press Release Distribution Service

Cook County prosecutors won’t bring charges against a Midlothian police officer who killed security guard Jemel Roberson during a chaotic 2018 confrontation outside a Robbins nightclub, the state’s attorney’s office announced Friday. Top Featured Tags: – Illinois News Press Release Distribution Service

Last month was the deadliest September in Chicago since 1993, though police officials emphasized Thursday that other violent crime dropped from their summer levels. Top Featured Tags: – Illinois News Press Release Distribution Service

Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus in the Chicago area and the rest of Illinois. Top Featured Tags: – Illinois News Press Release Distribution Service

Four-term state Democratic Rep. Stephanie Kifowit of Oswego is announcing a bid to challenge longtime Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan when the new General Assembly is seated in January. Top Featured Tags: – Illinois News Press Release Distribution Service

Chicago voters started lining up early Thursday morning to cast their ballots at the Loop Super Site ahead of the Nov. 3 election. The Loop Super Site will be open seven days a week through Election Day. Hours are 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekends.…

Two people were killed when two vehicles collided just outside the Chicago Executive Airport in Wheeling, causing the closure of one of the airport’s runways, according to authorities. Top Featured Tags: – Illinois News Press Release Distribution Service

As experts grapple to understand COVID-19, some patients are reporting a great variety of symptoms that fall outside the official lists issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other major health authorities. Top Featured Tags: – Illinois News Press Release Distribution Service

Chicago and its violence have been a frequent subject of President Donald Trump’s attention. It was a common campaign thread Trump used to hammer Hillary Clinton, President Barack Obama and others. Since becoming president Trump has returned the theme. Here are Trump’s mentions of Chicago — and the state of Illinois — with annotations where…

Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus in the Chicago area and the rest of Illinois. Top Featured Tags: – Illinois News Press Release Distribution Service

University of Notre Dame President the Rev. John Jenkins apologized for not wearing a mask during the announcement of Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court. Top Featured Tags: – Illinois News Press Release Distribution Service

The city of Chicago added Kentucky, Wyoming, Texas and Nevada to its quarantine list and made no removals, officials announced Tuesday. Top Featured Tags: – Illinois News Press Release Distribution Service