Illinois

The family of a late firefighter in Illinois is honoring his memory with a new photoshoot featuring his newborn baby girl.

A soldier from Aurora, Miguel Villalon, has been killed in Afghanistan.

Authorities believe a girl that went missing nearly three years ago could be in Georgia.

Dispensaries across the state have rendered 271,169 transactions since cannabis was legalized on January 1, 2020 – totaling exactly $10,830,667.91 in sales.

Two other Americans, both contractors with the U.S. Department of Defense, were also killed Sunday by al-Shabab extremists at Manda Bay Airfield.

Illinois rang in the new year by officially legalizing the sale of recreational marijuana, raking in nearly $3.2 million in sales on its first day, state officials announced Thursday.

Donnie Wahlberg left a $2,020 tip for a waitress at an Illinois IHOP as part of the 2020 tip challenge.

Margaret Cortes said she hopes to employ others with disabilities at the Illinois bakery in the future.

Two toddlers died early Thursday after a woman allegedly stabbed her grandfather, tossed one child out a window and then jumped from an 11th-floor South Shore apartment — leaving the other child scalded in a bathtub, Chicago police said.

Greg Zanis has memorialized Chicago shooting victims. He's also crisscrossed the country by pick-up delivering over 27,000 crosses to victims of mass shootings, tornadoes and wildfires.

16-year-old Angie Monroy was shot in the head on Saturday in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood.

Chicago Bears linebacker Khalil Mack is delivering Christmas cheer to residents of his Florida hometown by paying off all the holiday layaway accounts at a local Walmart.

The two met up to “conduct a sale” about 5:45 p.m. Friday in the 2300 block of South Drake, police said.

The boy is charged with two felony counts of hate crime for taking a photo of the victim at school on Nov. 14 and using the photo in an ad posted to Craigslist, according to the DuPage County state’s attorney’s office.

Smollett's attorneys filed a response Tuesday to Chicago's lawsuit in federal court.

There were no gunshot victims from 10:02 p.m. Sunday until 12:43 a.m. Tuesday, according to Chicago Sun-Times and Chicago police records.

A 7-year-old was shot in the chest as she trick-or-treated in a bumblebee costume Thursday evening in Little Village.

A former Burlington Central School District bus aide has been charged with striking a young child and knocking out two teeth in the northwest suburbs.