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Addiction treatment experts are bracing for a steady rise in people seeking help for gambling disorder as a result of the new Chicago casino, just like they’ve seen after other gaming expansions in Illinois.

These Washington Federal Bank for Savings customers had no idea the high interest rates that attracted them were feeding the fraud. The bank’s “smooth operators” lured them in, the daughter of one victim says.

Chicago Treasurer Melissa Conyears-Ervin is running for Congress against longtime U.S. Rep. Danny Davis while she continues to face fallout from recently revealed allegations of unethical conduct in her administration from two former top aides. A former state representative first elected city treasurer in 2019, Conyears-Ervin was a prominent Davis supporter in 2022 when the incumbent faced a ...

Officers had to deploy a stun gun on a 25-year-old man who attempted to threaten officers with wooden stakes Thursday, according to a Denton police report.

As nearly 11,000 migrants are currently in shelters across Chicago with nearly 4,000 awaiting placement, new shelters are opening in the city's West Loop...

Nearly a year after long-simmering equity issues at William Jones College Prep erupted with a student sit-in and prompted the resignation of then Principal Joseph Powers, the Local School Council voted to hire a new principal Wednesday. Kerry Dolan, an assistant principal at Gwendolyn Brooks College Prep in Roseland for the past six years, will lead the South Loop high school of nearly 2,000 ...

A man was charged in connection with an armed robbery Wednesday morning at a business in the South Loop.

A 30-year-old woman turned herself in Friday morning in connection with a two-vehicle crash that occurred in March and left eight people injured.

Nacogdoches police believe a fatal traffic accident Saturday afternoon on South Loop 224 near Press Road might have been caused by a medical emergency.

"Martina Castro was the first woman in California to apply for a Spanish land grant, becoming the county's largest landholder," writes Ross Eric Gibson. "She ended up with two grants, Soquel in 1833 and the Augmentation in 1844, reaching from the bay to Loma Prieta Peak, totaling 34,470 acres. Her brother-in-law Francisco Rodriguez followed her lead, gaining Rancho Rodeo in 1834."