CHICAGO (AP) — The University of Chicago has received a $25 million donation from an unnamed benefactor to support the financial aid program for international students.

CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago-area hospital says it regrets sending a bill to the family of a baby boy who died about seven weeks after attackers cut him from his mother's womb.

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SPRINGFIELD (AP) — Two sisters have been charged with stealing thousands of dollars from a group that represents Illinois private colleges in the capital.

CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago woman has been charged with murder in the alleged abuse death of her young daughter.

CHICAGO (AP) — A clerk at a suburban Chicago gas station has been fired after a video was posted on social media appears to show him telling Hispanic customers to "go back to their country."

LEROY (AP) — A central Illinois seed plant is closing and will leave dozens of people unemployed as a result.

EDWARDSVILLE (AP) — A former southern Illinois assistant public defender who is accused of practicing law without a license is facing new charges for writing bad checks.

WARRENSBURG (AP) — Investigators have searched land in central Illinois for any remains of a woman who disappeared in Florida in 1992.

CHICAGO (AP) — A recently paroled armed robber has been charged in the stabbing death of man aboard a Chicago Transit Authority train.

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) — A southern Illinois man who admitted to using blackmail to obtain nude pictures of about 100 girls and women has been sentenced to 35 years in prison.

SHIRLEY (AP) — A central Illinois man is facing misdemeanor charges for allegedly trying to drown a police dog after being served with a warrant.

CHICAGO (AP) — A former pharmacy technician has been sentenced to just over a year in prison for stealing thousands of opioids from a Chicago pharmacy and selling them for a profit.

CHICAGO (AP) — A former Cook County correctional officer who was caught on camera repeatedly punching a jail inmate has pleaded guilty to battery.

CHICAGO (AP) — Singer R. Kelly, already facing sexual abuse charges brought by Illinois prosecutors, was arrested in Chicago on sweeping federal indictments that accuse him and members of his entourage of recruiting women and girls to engage in illegal sexual activity with the performer and …

SPRINGFIELD — The Illinois Department of Employment Security’s unemployment-claim system is back online Thursday after a more than two-day outage rendered the system unable to distribute unemployment checks or accept claims and certifications online.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An attorney for the family of an 18-month-old girl who fell to her death from a cruise ship in Puerto Rico says a hearse and police escort will meet them at a Chicago airport and take them home to Indiana.

MOUNT CARROLL (AP) — A man charged with murder in the death of an Illinois child welfare worker entered into a plea agreement with prosecutors and was sentenced to 21 years in prison.

DIXON (AP) — Child endangerment charges have been filed against a northern Illinois woman who allegedly transported an inflatable swimming pool atop her vehicle with two children inside.

SPRINGFIELD (AP) — State officials say thousands of Illinoisans will have delayed unemployment checks this week due to computer problems.

CHICAGO (AP) — Authorities say one person died and two were rescued after a sailboat capsized in Lake Michigan near the Chicago shoreline.

A statement from Illinois Department of Employment Security spokesman Sam Salustro said checks cannot be released until the system is running again, which the department anticipates to be 'by the end of the week.'

ROCKFORD (AP) — Fire officials in Rockford are investigating blazes at two playgrounds that destroyed more than $300,000 of new equipment.

WHEATON (AP) — A judge has given a Chicago man a 15-year prison term for choking his ex-girlfriend in her Naperville home in 2018 when he was on parole for murder.