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Jieun Kim of Los Angeles and Jieun Kim of Chicagoland say their lives were turned upside down because the SSA mistakenly issued them both the same number.

An Illinois grand jury has indicted the father of man charged with fatally shooting seven people at a Fourth of July parade in suburban Chicago.

New details are emerging in a fiery crash that left two people dead and at least 16 others injured, seven of whom are children.

“It’s almost like I got to hug my daughter again,” the mother said.

Unlike a solar eclipse, totality in a lunar eclipse is much longer and can be viewed from a wider area. Here’s how to watch it.

Ayo Dosunmu and former President Barack Obama led a day of activities and conversation for Chicago-area students.

The child’s relative is accused of pushing him into the lake while at Navy Pier in Chicago and then standing by as he sank.

Seven of the injured were in the building on the city’s West Side when the explosion occurred and one apparently was in a building across the street.

A federal jury in Chicago convicted R. Kelly on Wednesday of producing child pornography and enticing girls for sex after a monthlong trial in his hometown. It’s another legal blow to a singer who was once one of the world’s biggest R&B stars. Prosecutors won convictions on six of the 13 counts against him, with many of the convictions carrying...

Lewis scored a mainstream breakthrough in 1965 with the hit single “The In Crowd”, showcasing the combination of jazz, funk and R&B elements. The song went on to win a Grammy award for Best Jazz Performance from a Small Group.

Addressing jurors in a courtroom in Chicago, Kelly’s hometown, Elizabeth Pozolo cited one of Kelly’s accusers who was the government’s star witness at the monthlong trial.

A mother whose daughter prosecutors say R. Kelly sexually abused starting when she was 14 told jurors Monday at the singer’s federal trial that she lied to a state grand jury 20 years ago, in part because she and her husband felt threatened by Kelly and feared for their lives if they told the truth.

A woman who has been central to R. Kelly’s legal troubles for more than two decades has testified that the R&B singer sexually abused her “hundreds” of times before she turned 18 years old, starting when she was just 15. Jane — the pseudonym for the 37-year-old woman at Kelly’s trial on child pornography and obstruction of justice charges —...

What’s the new buzz around Pabst Blue Ribbon? Well, the beer company with ties to Chicago is tapping into a new realm of the hospitality industry.

Four loose pigs have been hogging up space in a western suburb of Chicago.

NASCAR announced a street race in Chicago the weekend of Fourth of July 2023.

The white woman who was at the center of the 1955 lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till in Mississippi denies wanting him killed.

A Chicago-area librarian’s post about a heartbreaking encounter he experienced is going viral on Twitter.

Days after a rooftop gunman killed seven people at a parade, attention has turned to how the assailant obtained multiple guns and whether the laws on Illinois books could have prevented the Independence Day massacre.

Terry Grossberg was riding on a golf cart through the parade route in Highland Park, handing out souvenirs to the crowd, when suddenly he heard shots ring out from about 100 feet away. “I saw people falling and tripping and scrambling and screaming,” Grossberg told LX News’ Tabitha Lipkin in a phone interview. “This just shouldn’t happen. It shouldn’t happen...