Also on the list were historical books on racism, the Ku Klux Klan and the treatment of women, gender and race in art and literature.

Police said the 16-year-old suspect, who reportedly has a history of violence, wrote in her diary that she hated her mother and wanted to kill her.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A Concealed-Carry License holder was injured in a South Side shootout on Sunday morning, Chicago police said. Police responded to the South Shore neighborhood's 6900-block of South ...

VIENNA -- As construction crews churned up dirt to renovate a Vienna soccer field last October, they happened upon an ...

Illinois State Police said the crash happened on westbound Interstate 390, near Meacham Road in Itasca, just after 3 a.m. The crash caused life-threatening injuries, ISP confirmed. Authorities did not ...

LOS ANGELES -- The family of a missing 13-year-old boy from Southern California confirmed that investigators found his body on Wednesday. Los Angeles police said Oscar Omar Hernandez, from North ...

A 57-year-old man died Friday evening after getting out of a car that washed off a road in West Plains, Missouri. Flooding killed two people in Kentucky including a 9-year-old boy swept away that same ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A man was shot inside a moving vehicle on Chicago's Southwest Side early Sunday morning, police said. Officers responded to the Pilsen neighborhood's 1800-block of South Blue Island ...

According to the Federal Reserve Bank of Saint Louis, more than 604,000 people across Illinois are employed in leisure and hospitality.

A Justice Department attorney was placed on leave after conceding that Abrego Garcia should not have been removed from the U.S. or sent to El Salvador.

A Colorado man is on trial, accused of killing his wife after sending her text messages purporting to be from an ex-boyfriend ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A serious Dan Ryan Expressway crash is impacting traffic on Chicago's South Side on Sunday morning. The crash happened around 3 a.m. on Interstate 94 at 87th Street. All outbound ...