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Gov. Bruce Rauner has issued his first two pardons since becoming governor nearly three months ago.Click to Continue »

Election officials say more than 142,300 Chicago voters cast early ballots for Tuesday's runoff election.Click to Continue »

Conservative lawmakers this year are taking the push to strip limits on owning and carrying guns from rural areas to urban Missouri, the latest front for debate on gun rights…Click to Continue »

A suburban Kansas City school district has found a new home for a Thomas Hart Benton painting that it was keeping locked up because it was considered too valuable to…Click to Continue »

Authorities in Chicago say a person suspected of driving a stolen car ran from officers onto a freeway where he was hit by a car.Click to Continue »

Cook County's chief medical examiner says the agency's autopsy rate has increased from less than half to roughly 63 percent.Click to Continue »

Sergio da Silva and Armindo Goncalves — part of a young generation from a young country — came to Joliet Junior College this year to study agriculture, hoping to improve…Click to Continue »

Emily Talbott has loved science since she was a young girl and wants to pass that passion on to children.Click to Continue »

Evanston police are investigating an early morning shooting that left two men hospitalized.Click to Continue »

The owner of a Chicago prepaid cellphone business has pleaded guilty to tax underpaying federal income tax by $174,000 over four years.Click to Continue »