13+ hour, 15+ min ago  (1842+ words) Parker Ross and Ellis Deputy met between a painting and a blanket. It was last November, soon after they'd both moved to Peoria from out of state, at a local art show for Transgender Day of Remembrance. They each had…...

6+ hour, 27+ min ago  (790+ words) Last year, Illinois Democrats vilified the GOP's so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The sweeping tax and spending package included significant cuts to health care, food assistance and education while foisting new costs onto the states. As of today, however,…...

23+ hour, 34+ min ago  (557+ words) KYIV, Ukraine " Russia and Ukraine traded deadly strikes overnight and on Saturday morning, killing 10 people and wounding several dozen more, officials on both sides said Saturday. The attacks came as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy traveled to Istanbul for talks with…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago  (1793+ words) At a small Persian church in the western suburbs, the pastor bowed his head on Palm Sunday and offered a special prayer for regime change and freedom of worship in his native Iran, as the more than monthlong U.S.-Israeli-led war…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago  (284+ words) Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on April 4, according to the Tribune's archives. Front page flashback: April 5, 1968 1968: The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed outside his second-floor room at the Lorraine Motel…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago  (983+ words) After Pam Bondi became U.S. attorney general last year, conservative influencers, online sleuths and others who wanted the government to disclose all it knew about Jeffrey Epstein thought they might have a champion in the Department of Justice. So did Jess…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago  (1052+ words) NEW YORK " This is not the run-up to the midterm elections that Republicans wanted. A year and a half after winning the White House by promising to lower costs and end wars, Donald Trump is a wartime president overseeing surging…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago  (439+ words) I am writing as a representative of the Indivisible Naperville leadership to express our disappointment with the recent Naperville Sun coverage of the March 28 No Kings protest in Naperville. In a time when public demonstrations can easily become tense or…...

2+ day, 7+ hour ago  (1213+ words) On a recent weeknight, three tenants of an aging Bronx building were trading apartment horror stories inside a packed ballroom lined with city bureaucrats. The occasion was the third in a series of "rental rip-off hearings," a new forum launched…...

2+ day, 5+ hour ago  (539+ words) With the wind whipping by over the hum of Lenten hymns, community members sat outside Broadview's U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement Facility yesterday and had their feet washed. Inside the building, more than a dozen detainees did the same. Amid an…...