As a private police force, UCPD is not subject to Illinois open-records laws or extensive City oversight, unlike police at ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said somebody intentionally set a fire to city hall over the weekend. The arson attempt happened on Friday at about 11 p.m., according to the mayor.

An arsonist attempted to start a fire at City Hall late Friday night, Mayor Brandon Johnson said Monday. The blaze went out ...

Violence has no place in our politics," Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said Monday after an attempted arson at City Hall last ...

In Lake County and across Illinois, fire pensions are driving up property taxes and leaving fewer resources for safety.

Evanston’s Deputy Fire Chief William “Bill” Muno is retiring from the department after 39 years of service, according to a ...

Between 50 to 60 chickens died when a barn in a northwest suburb of Chicago caught fire Saturday morning, authorities said.

In 1960, Alton firemen Gene Elmendorf and John Bond inspected The Telegraph's newsprint ...

But either way – responding to crisis or finding a public change of heart – is a reminder that voters are the ultimate arbiters in a functioning democracy. Today, as in late-19th-century America, ...

Nov 7 - James D. Watson, the brilliant but controversial American biologist whose 1953 discovery of the structure of DNA, the molecule of heredity, ushered in the age of genetics and provided the ...

The Hotel Florence was opulent and luxurious when the Pullman Palace Car Company controlled an area of Chicago's Far South Side. It also may harbor some ghostly guests.

Construction is expected to begin soon on the new Lake Forest police headquarters after the City Council approved financing for the $26 million project that will convert a vacant Conway Park ...