A wide grin was plastered on Marimar Martinez’s face Thursday as she thanked her attorneys outside an Illinois courtroom and told reporters, “I’m just blessed. I’m happy.”

The Christkindlmarket opens downtown on Friday morning ahead of the city's official Christmas tree on Friday night. Chicago's Christkindlmarket in Daley Plaza opens for the holiday season on Friday. The market will be open from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and until 9 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays through Dec. 24.

Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates faces federal probe over five years of missing financial audits required under transparency laws.

Federal prosecutors on Thursday moved to dismiss the indictment of a Chicago woman who was shot repeatedly by a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent during an escalated deportation campaign in the Chicago area this autumn,

A judge’s blistering 223-page opinion has offered a cache of striking new details from body camera footage about agents’ use of force during a federal immigration crackdown in the Chicago area dubbed “Operation Midway Blitz.

At least six people were wounded in a pair of shootings late Friday night in the Loop, just hours after Chicago lit the city's official Christmas tree just blocks away in Millennium Park.

Multiple police officers were attacked while responding to a shooting in Chicago on Friday evening in which at least five victims were shot.

For nearly two months, federal agents have been carrying out surprise raids in Chicago in pursuit of the Trump administration’s immigration agenda, emerging from unmarked vehicles in neighborhoods throughout the city to confront and detain stunned members of the public.