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Nearly five years after Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke shot and killed teenager Laquan McDonald, a city panel voted to fire four officers, accusing them of covering up for Van Dyke.

Gov. Rod Blagojevich has been arrested on charges that he conspired to get financial benefits through his ability to appoint the person to replace President-elect Barack Obama in the U.S. Senate. A 76-page FBI affidavit says the 51-year-old Democrat was intercepted on court-authorized wiretaps conspiring to sell or trade the vacant Senate seat for personal benefits.

About 15 million properties in the U.S. are prone to flooding, but patchwork and ineffective disclosure laws mean most people get little to no information about flood risk before they move.

The veto of a law to end a moratorium on new nuclear power plant construction in Illinois sets up a battle in the fall veto session. In his veto message, Gov. JB Pritzker appears to be saying the bill isn't ready for prime time.

Bitcoin ETFs get greenlight from top federal regulator, after years of resistance. The fund will track the price of the cryptocurrency.

The financial gap between wealthy hospitals and safety-net hospitals, which take everyone who walks through their doors, has widened during the pandemic, an NPR and PBS Frontline investigation found.

Most people would shrink from an opportunity to walk through the woods at night. All that darkness. All those strange insect sounds, not to mention the…

Aedes scapularis mosquitoes are from the tropics and can carry yellow fever. Entomologist Lawrence Reeves recently identified them among mosquitoes he collected near Everglades National Park in 2019.

When an outsider suggested the tiny northern hamlet of Swastika should change its name, town supervisors quickly rejected a change.

The Dunlap School District's new offices should be completed by this fall.