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The state General Assembly Retirement System board voted to strip former state Rep. Luis Arroyo of his more than $4,500-a-month state pension, citing state law that allows retirement benefits to be taken from ex-lawmakers if they commit felonies arising from their time in office.

Sabrina Waller says she has found comfort in her time in a tattoo artist’s chair, working through the experiences she faced during active duty through art.

A pregnant woman from Edgewater had to quickly find another ride to the hospital to give birth. An Albany Park man says reading that he wasn’t alone helped him “feel less like a victim.”

Juan Carlos Silva was a career military man before leaving his home country for the trek north. In Chicago, his talent for painting has fed his spirit and found fans.

Moving the families out of the YMCA to Daley College, only to then move migrants at the police stations to the Y, makes no sense.

The body of Amy Kelts was found Thursday morning after she was reported missing while swimming.

While the estimated budget hole is larger than the $18.2 million gap projected last year, it is one of the county’s smallest deficits in the last decade. Government leaders said that hiring hasn’t budged much in the past year. “We do need to staff up,” Cook County Board President Preckwinkle…

Reginald Meadows, 31, was shot and killed when gunfire erupted at the event early Sunday. An attorney for his family is investigating filing a wrongful-death lawsuit.

The camp, in its second year in Chicago, teaches the first-time sailors the parts of the boat, water safety rules, knot tying and how to maneuver the boat and work its sails.