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Homewood has agreed to distribute surplus funds from a special taxing district earlier than usual this year to help Homewood School District 153.

The city of Oak Forest voted Tuesday to outsource its community development department to a private company.

Cook County has launched a new online database of lobbyists and lobbying activity.

A teenage boy is in critical condition after he was shot while riding a bicycle in an apparent drive-by attack in Chicago's Roseland community.

Police say a 3-year-old Chicago boy died after a horse landed on him at a northwestern Indiana horse farm.

A woman has been charged after a 1-year-old child was found to have cocaine and PCP in his system, police said.

A Palos Heights Irish wig maker is suing a dance instructor, accusing him of making negative comments online about the company and its wigs.

Detectives have a number of leads in the case of a Lockport man who was found dead after disappearing from his Orland Park business earlier this month, Joliet Deputy Police Chief Michael Trafton said Tuesday.

A woman turned herself in to police Monday morning after a Bridgeview man was fatally struck by a car outside a Palos Hills banquet hall early Sunday, police said.

A man is being questioned and four people, including two children, are hospitalized after a vehicle apparently caused an SUV to flip and then fled the scene on the Tri-State Tollway near South Holland.

Gov. Pat Quinn and Mayor Richard Daley today praised Ford Motor Co. for bringing 1,200 new jobs to the city as the automaker unveiled the newest version of its Explorer SUV.

The Defense Department is conducting a damage assessment on the leak of some 91,000 classified documents on the Afghanistan war.

The Chicago Tribune had the "Dewey Defeats Truman" headline. The Postal Service put out a stamp with a biplane printed upside down. Now, state officials are dealing with their own mix-up in the latest Illinois Blue Book.

A teen is hospitalized after being shot in the arm Monday in Chicago's Roseland community.

ABC's "The View" has welcomed many notable guests, but none more prominent than President Barack Obama, who is scheduled to visit for Thursday's edition.

One person was injured Monday when a fire erupted in the basement of a vacant building in the Hamilton Park community.

The roof of a commercial building has partially caved in during an extra-alarm fire Monday that has left the South Side building a "total loss."

The defense and prosecution rested this morning in the corruption trial of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich.

The tentative settlement in the construction workers' strike has the Homewood-Flossmoor Park District reconsidering bids for asphalt work.