The Fourth of July will be a crowded celebration: Concerts, home games, lakefront fireworks, block parties. It is also traditionally one of the most violent weekends in the city. Follow Tribune reporters as they capture scenes of the holiday.

Plan a fab Fourth of July with our fireworks guide to the Chicago area, from the Wisconsin line to the south suburbs and Northwest Indiana. Displays listed below range in date through July 12; some events listed below include festivities other than...

Democratic lawmakers Tuesday floated a proposal to approve a one-month budget Wednesday, the deadline for state government to have a full one-year spending plan in place. But it was unclear how the idea would help amid a much broader and long-runni...

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, facing an uphill fight to win votes for her proposed sales tax increase, said Tuesday she is open to rolling back the hike as soon as this fall if state lawmakers approve the public pension overhaul she...

Greece slipped deeper into its financial abyss on Tuesday, when the bailout program it has relied on for five years was set to expire and the country was due to become the first developed nation to miss a payment to the International Monetary Fund.

A former College of DuPage trustee is formally alleging that a campaign fund used to support the three winning candidates in the recent board of trustees election failed to report a contribution it received in a timely manner.

Oak Forest police say someone stole a van loaded with thousands of dollars of equipment belonging to a touring blues musician in the early hours of Saturday morning, and the theft may be related to a smash and grab at a Tinley Park Best Buy.

Brookfield Zoo is celebrating its first births of Mexican gray wolf pups.

Joggers are credited with saving a man struggling in the water off North Avenue Tuesday morning by grabbing a paddle board and paddling it out to him, according to officials and those involved.

Stephen Curry has surpassed LeBron James for the most popular jersey in the NBA.