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Downstate has become much more reliable for Republicans. But the increase in Republican identification in the region has not been enough to make up for its falling vote share in the suburbs.

A group of mostly middle-aged women trying to keep St. Adalbert Church’s Pieta from being removed erected a barricade outside the church Friday and vowed to protest 24 hours a day.

The internal investigation was sparked by a Sun-Times report on an FBI investigation into a bribery scheme at the Cook County Board of Review.

Kids enjoy the final days of summer, Chicago police honor fallen officers, the Sky reach the end of the line and more in our best unseen pics of the week.

The university never told county officials it was leasing to a preschool — which could be on the hook for over $800,000 in property taxes. So the bills went to a past tenant — which refused to pay the county over $400,000 in taxes but was allowed to renew its…

Residents started lining up outside the high school two hours prior to the team’s tightly orchestrated public relations presentations. Many filed into the gym wearing Bears jerseys and carrying signs calling on the team to “rise to new heights in Arlington.”

Gov. J.B. Pritzker complained Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s busing of immigrants is politically motivated and “disgusting.” “Staffs have been in contact with one another, but they have been wholly uncooperative in Texas,” Pritzker said. “They are trying to sow chaos around the country, not just here in…

Not all of Ald. Ray Lopez’s ordinance is practical. But putting a cap on future pay raises will save taxpayers from an unnecessary burden.

Chicago’s Night Ministry now prefers the term “unhoused.”

Latonia Marshall, who has worked at the hotel for 14 years, said the hotel has been busy and she has to clean up to 15 guest rooms a day.

For the third time in a week, Texas officials sent individuals arriving at the southern U.S. border to Chicago. City officials are providing refuge for the newly arrived immigrants at a Humboldt Park shelter.