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Are hurt. That death toll is likely to rise after a series of explosions in brussels today. Two at the airport and another in the subway. Subway. We want to get you straight to 9 on your sides craig mckee. He is tracking the breaking details for you. Information on these attacks has been coming into the newsroom at a fever pitch all day. The pentagon reports an American Service member and his family were among those injured in the attack. And a lexington woman and her husband are among those sti...

A Sangamon County Circuit Court judge granted a preliminary injunction Wednesday against enforcement of a recently passed Illinois law that prohibits election slating. The legislation could prevent four Republicans vying for state office from appearing on general election ballots in November. The candidates filed the lawsuit against the Illinois State Board of Elections and Attorney...

In 1930, a 15-year-old Harry Caray was living in St. Louis when the city hosted an aircraft exhibition honoring aviator Charles Lindbergh. “The ‘first ever’ cow to fly in an airplane was introduced at the exhibition,” said Grant DePorter, Harry Caray restaurants manager. “She became the most famous cow in the world at the time and is still listed among the most famous bovines along with Mrs. O’Leary’s cow and ‘Elsie the cow.’”

BOMA Chicago filed an appeal with the Illinois Supreme Court in another legal advance to push the contested transfer tax referendum off voters' March ballots.

New ward boundaries for Calumet City aldermen were unanimously approved Thursday as the City Council agreed on maps to slightly redraw the seven wards based on a population decline of about 2,000 people and a shift in density between the central wards. Each of the wards have just more than 5,000 residents and the main changes involve the middle wards boundaries on the north side of the city, ...

As early voting for the March 19 primary gears up in Chicago, voters are still in the dark about whether their choice on the so-called Bring Chicago Home referendum will count. Lawyers were in court Wednesday arguing over the fate of the key plank in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s progressive agenda. But Circuit Judge Kathleen Burke did not rule on whether the lawsuit can proceed. Large real estate ...

Michael Kasper is running Danville. Quite literally, he runs miles of pavement every morning, winding the streets of Danville long before most of us have rolled out of bed, averaging

Still unknown is whether the Blue Island Democrat will be called to testify at the upcoming trial of his longtime ally, former Illinois House Speaker Michael J. Madigan.

Skin cancer killed Jimmy Buffett

Merkel cell carcinoma is the second most common cause of skin cancer-related death, after melanoma.