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New spending will focused on building Chicago’s shelter capacity and getting immigrants to permanent housing.

Smaller schools try to offer as much as they can as enrollment dwindles. And many are realizing that, to meet their needs, they’re going to have to share.

With Chicago in the running for the $11 billion National Semiconductor Technology Center, a multi-university network of researchers and scientists are optimistic Illinois’ advances in engineering and manufacturing — especially quantum — will help them seal the deal. So is Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker.

Illinois became the first state in the country to abolish cash bail on Monday, but the courts remained slow in the Metro East.

Amtrak and the Illinois Department of Transportation received federal approval for the trains traveling between Chicago and St. Louis to have a maximum speed of 110 mph, up from 90 mph.

The Muny’s 102nd season gets underway in June 2020, and it features musicals representing six decades of musical theater.On Thursday’s St. Louis on the…

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It’s not a hoax—Chicago’s Navy Pier Ferris wheel is moving to Branson. The Track Family Fun Parks is paying $2.5 million to install the wheel in the…

WASHINGTON - Just days after Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy stepped down, as part of the fallout from the police shooting death of…

This National League Central Division series will be historic: The Cards and Cubs are facing one another for the first time ever in the postseason, and…