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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

A man kills a 6-year-old Palestinian Muslim boy and seriously injures his mother during a stabbing attack in Plainfield Township, Illinois, United States. The perpetrator, who was the victims' landlord, states he was motivated by the ongoing Israel–Gaza war.
2023-10-15

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

A person is killed and 22 more injured during a mass shooting at a Juneteenth celebration in Willowbrook, Illinois, United States.
2023-06-18

Illinois reports its first case of the Lineage P.1 variant first detected in Brazil in a person from Chicago.
2021-03-5

U.S. officials are investigating the hacking of election system databases in Illinois and Arizona. The FBI alerted all election officials nationwide about this issue earlier this month.
2016-08-29

Leaders of nine national law enforcement groups, at the annual International Association of Chiefs of Police conference in Chicago, Illinois, call on federal lawmakers to strengthen background checks on gun purchases.
2015-10-26

The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit overturns an Illinois law banning the carrying of concealed weapons.
2012-12-11

Mitt Romney is projected as the winner of primaries in Virginia, Massachusetts, Ohio and Vermont as well as the Idaho and Alaska caucuses.
2012-03-6

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