A man whose wife was struck and killed by a car being pursued by Chicago police officers will receive $2 million if a city committee approves a proposed settlement over her death.

The Chicago City Council’s Finance Committee is set on Monday to consider the settlement involving Julia Lynn Callaway, who was struck so violently in May 2018 her body was thrown 50 feet into the air.

The U.S. is among the most mobile countries in the world, but our rates of moving have slumped in recent decades. In 2019, for example, a lower percentage of Americans changed residence than any year prior since 1947 when migration statistics were first gathered by the Census Bureau. Between March of 2019 and 2020, just 9.3% of Americans moved.

American migration has been in some form of decline since the housing boom and economic growth of the ‘40s, ‘50s, and ‘60s. During that period, as much as 20% of the population moved each yea

A chapter in the retail history of Illinois comes to an end Sunday.

Sears will close its store at the Woodfield Mall in Schaumburg.

The Chicago Police Board’s hearing on whether the fiery first-term president of the Fraternal Order of Police President should lose his job as an officer will begin on Monday.

Four years ago, officials launched an investigation over obscene and inflammatory statements that John Catanzara made on social media.

While many Chicagoans gather for Thanksgiving with family and friends, Chicago City Council members are staring down the possibility of a holiday spent together – at City Hall.

They could be huddled behind closed doors in the so-called “map room” as a deadline looms and compromise seems far off in the once-in-a-decade process to redraw the city’s ward map.