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Several pro-Palestinian demonstrators are arrested after protestors clashed with police near the Israeli consulate in Chicago, Illinois, United States, on the second night of the Democratic National Convention.
2024-08-20

Six people are killed and 20 others are injured in shootings across Chicago, Illinois, United States.
2023-07-23

Four people are killed and five are injured in a series of shootings in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
2023-07-8

U.S. President Joe Biden condemns Belarus for the hijacking and the arrest of Protasevich, and he says that his administration will "develop appropriate options". U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Marco Rubio (R-FL) urge Biden to ban flights to the country.
2021-05-24

Chicago, Illinois police officer, Jason Van Dyke, enters a not guilty plea regarding the charges of the 2014 shooting death of Laquan McDonald.
2015-12-29

A violent storm system spawns at least one tornado killing two people and injuring seven others in the American state of Illinois and causing widespread damage especially in the small towns of Rochelle and Fairdale.
2015-04-9

The former Governor of the US state of Illinois Rod Blagojevich is sentenced to 14 years in jail for corruption.
2011-12-7

A heavy thunderstorm hits the midwestern United States of Illinois and Wisconsin leaving thousands of homes without power and causing transport problems in Chicago.
2011-06-30

More than 270,000 people in the US city of Chicago, Illinois, are left without power due to thunder storms with some reports of funnel clouds.
2011-06-21