Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert has closed out his political action committee, giving $10,000 to his legal defense fund, according to federal election records.

The wife of a Loop CEO who was fatally shot by an employee last summer has filed a lawsuit against the gunman's estate.

In the years leading up to her appointment as a South Holland trustee, Cindy Doorn-Nylen regularly provided interior plantscaping services to the village, records show.

A man claiming to be the son of President Obama was charged and ordered to wear an electronic monitoring bracelet after spurring a police bomb unit response outside of the President's Kenwood home on Thursday, prosecutors said Friday.

Ismael Lopez lived and died in a small patch of Back of the Yards thick with homicide memorials and gang graffiti.

Bicyclists Jason Ziomek and Michael Bailey had never met before Tuesday, but their paths crossed while they were completing their cycling regimens.