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With the November election less than a month away, the three candidates running to replace retiring U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin are sharpening their messages on affordability, immigration reform and how they would approach the job.

Mike Ditka, a Hall of Fame player who coached the Chicago Bears to the 1985 Super Bowl win, died Friday, sources said.

Vice President JD Vance cast doubt Friday on whether the Pentagon will livestream the execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan in December but told reporters that if it is livestreamed, "I'm not going to be watching it."

The mother of a 3-year-old beaten to death over a year ago has been arrested.

A Los Angeles judge has granted Hayden Panettiere's former fiance Wladimir Klitschko temporary guardianship of their daughter's estate.

Workers at several Chicago hotels went on strike Friday morning.

When Cati Blauvelt's friends discovered she was missing in 2016, some of them checked an abandoned house. She was found dead in the basement.

A person of interest is in custody following the stabbing death of CTA worker Julian Mobley at the Damen and Lake Green Line station. The rail janitor leaves behind a wife, a toddler and a 14-year-old daughter.

Mike Ditka, the legendary former Chicago Bears coach and first tight end ever inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, has died at the age of 86.

A woman and a man are facing charges in connection with a CTA bus shooting that injured two people near a South Side school last week, Chicago police said.