Jake Griffin Daily Herald Media Group

The new pope, formerly Robert Prevost and now Pope Leo XIV, is the youngest of three boys raised by a school superintendent father and school librarian mother in south suburban Dolton

A resident of one of the apartment units in the two-story dwelling on the 500 block of North Washington Avenue reported a stove fire just after 8 p.m., fire officials said.

A 54-year-old Chicago man is charged with first-degree murder after authorities said he spat on a Glendale Heights woman and stabbed her in the back Thursday near a CTA green line stop in Chicago.

Six people are in custody after Downers Grove police say a woman was the victim of an armed robbery Tuesday night.

A Georgia man is facing federal charges for threatening a spiritual mission based in West Chicago.

One person is dead after an early morning house fire near Lombard Wednesday.

A Downers Grove man who operated an immigration assistance practice is facing multiple immigration fraud charges, according to a federal indictment unsealed Monday.

Two people were killed in a crash Sunday night near Elgin, according to the Kane County sheriff’s office.

The Kane County sheriff’s office is investigating a fatal crash Monday morning near West Dundee.

A Wayne man was charged with conspiracy to commit securities fraud after allegedly getting a tip from a golf buddy.

A Huntley woman has died from injuries she sustained in a Christmas morning crash in Addison.

A 16-year-old Hinsdale South High School student is being held in a juvenile detention center after authorities said he brought a loaded handgun to school Thursday.

The season’s first hint of winter is expected late Wednesday with snowfall expected throughout much of the suburbs.

A shopper at an Elmhurst Jewel-Osco grocery store won $1 million last month in the Illinois Lottery.

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