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Follow live updates on the 2024 election . It was August 1968, and Chicago was ready to combust. The Democratic National Convention had come to town, along with thousands of [...]

About 50,000 people are expected in the nation's third-largest city for the Democrats' convention. Some Chicagoans are thrilled. Others are skipping town. Workers rushed around in the shadow of the [...]

Demographers say that a growing number of Americans identify as more than one race, and that the number will continue expanding in the decades ahead. When former President Donald J. [...]

Byline: Julie Bosman, Robert Gebeloff and Ethan Singer Demographers say that a growing number of Americans identify as more than one race, and that the number will continue expanding in [...]

The Secret Service, which has been under scrutiny since the assassination attempt against Donald J. Trump, says it has reviewed its security plan for the convention in August. Chicago is [...]

The demonstration, while spirited, appeared to be far smaller than organizers had expected. Some suggested that the attempted assassination of Donald J. Trump may have affected the turnout and mood. [...]

Cavalier Johnson, the Democratic mayor of Milwaukee, was one of the biggest cheerleaders for holding the Republican National Convention in the city. Mayor Cavalier Johnson was zipping in and out [...]

Larry White was thrown a little off-kilter by the soupy, 93-degree temperature in Chicago on Monday morning. It's only mid-June, he said with annoyance, and until this week he barely [...]

In May, parts of Chicago were covered for the first time in 17 years by a brood of buzzing, mating, crawling red-eyed cicadas. The city's tiniest trees were ready. Homeowners [...]

The Chicago City Council is seeking the public transit chief's ouster as the system wrestles with financial woes, sluggish service and crime complaints since the pandemic. Until recently, Dorval R. [...]

New census estimates find moderate post-pandemic rebounds for big cities in the Midwest and Northeast. After decades of painful decline, Detroit's population grew in 2023, according to new estimates released [...]

New census estimates find moderate post-pandemic rebounds for big cities in the Midwest and Northeast. After decades of painful decline, Detroit's population grew in 2023, according to new estimates released [...]

Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago understands the comparison to 1968. Once again, the city is gearing up to host a late-summer Democratic National Convention against a backdrop of fury and [...]

Byline: Julie Bosman and Jamie Kelter Davis As the third graders of Cumberland Elementary in the Chicago suburbs colored, clipped and glued paper to make cicadas with filmy wings, they [...]

As the third graders of Cumberland Elementary in the Chicago suburbs colored, clipped and glued paper to make cicadas with filmy wings, they confided their fears about what is about [...]

His acquittal in the infamous trial involving Nicole Brown Simpson's death prompted powerful backlash that helped change the perception around domestic violence. In December 1994, investigators from the Los Angeles [...]

Justice Ann Walsh Bradley, whose term ends in July 2025, said she will not seek re-election. The race to replace her will decide whether the court has a liberal or [...]

Yee Leng Xiong, a 29-year-old nonprofit executive, has been an elected official in Wisconsin since he was a teenager. From a north central county known for ginseng farming and downhill [...]

The contest was close, and workers counted ballots for days after the March 19 election before the result of the race for the Democratic nomination was announced. Eileen O'Neill Burke, [...]

A proposal to raise the transfer tax on sales of high-value properties was trailing. Two Democrats were locked in a close Cook County prosecutor primary. Vote counting continued in Chicago [...]

Covid was declared a national emergency on March 13, 2020. Even as the threat of severe illness and death has faded, the pandemic's effects linger. Jessie Thompson, a 36-year-old mother [...]

An unseasonably warm winter peaked on Tuesday with melting ice rinks and 70-degree weather. Temperatures will plummet from there, but even so, this winter without winter has left some people [...]

Prosecutors said two teenagers also face charges. More arrests are possible, they said. It began, prosecutors said, with one man accusing another of staring at him. Groups of men, who [...]

Homicides in Kansas City, Mo., increased last year, many of them attributed to arguments, officials say. Across the country, Americans were shocked and horrified by the images on Wednesday from [...]

The authorities said the teenagers had been charged with resisting arrest and gun violations, and that additional charges are expected. Two teenagers were charged with resisting arrest and ''gun-related'' offenses [...]

President Biden's age has once again become a talking point in national politics. Many older Americans agree that it's an issue; others feel it's insulting. Bill Murphy, an 80-year-old retired [...]

Prayer candles adorned with the faces of Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift gaze out from shop windows. Chiefs flags flutter on car windows zipping down highways. Red clothing appears to [...]

Byline: Julie Bosman In recent weeks, buses have been bypassing the city for its smaller outlying communities, where people are unaccustomed to the flow of newcomers. In different times, the [...]

In recent weeks, buses have been bypassing the city for its smaller outlying communities, where people are unaccustomed to the flow of newcomers. In different times, the tiny brick Metra [...]

An armed 17-year-old student left one dead and five wounded at Perry High School. In downtown Perry, Iowa, on Friday, residents wore blue to support each other, reflecting the school [...]

After Colorado's top court ruled that the former president was disqualified for engaging in insurrection, justices in Michigan considered a similar challenge. The Michigan Supreme Court on Wednesday gave Donald [...]

Domestic shootings are a small portion of the city's violence, but victims' advocates say the new spike is worrisome. Chicago is expected to end 2023 with a double-digit decline in [...]

The ruling, coming just months after liberals gained a 4-to-3 majority on the State Supreme Court, could undo gerrymanders that have given Republicans lopsided control of the State Legislature. The [...]

Kevin M. Guskiewicz of the University of North Carolina is to become Michigan State University's sixth president in six years. Michigan State University confirmed a new president on Friday, an [...]

The Supreme Court justice, who died at 93 on Friday, made a series of influential rulings and inspired women across a range of fields as she cemented her legacy. When [...]

A challenge to district maps that have locked in Republican control of the Legislature was argued on Tuesday before a State Supreme Court with a new 4-to-3 liberal majority. The [...]

Robert Crimo Jr., whose son is accused in a shooting at a Fourth of July parade in 2022, agreed to a plea that will send him to jail for 60 [...]

Many in the swing state say they feel betrayed by the president's support for Israel. Sam Baydoun, a Wayne County commissioner in Dearborn, Mich., has been glued to Al Jazeera [...]

The city's police chief emphasized that the attack did not appear to be related to antisemitism. No arrests have been made. The authorities in Detroit said on Monday that they [...]

The family of Wadea Al-Fayoume remembered him at a funeral in suburban Chicago. The man accused in the boy's death appeared in court. At the front of an Illinois mosque, [...]

For Judith Raanan and her teenage daughter, Natalie, the voyage to Israel that began in September was abundant with meaning, a trip to celebrate the Jewish holidays and the 85th [...]

Byline: Ernesto Londoño and Julie Bosman The buses packed with Venezuelan migrants are now arriving in downtown Chicago day and night, doubling in number in recent weeks. City officials are [...]

The globe's warmest months on record redefined summer for many Americans. It felt like the opening minutes of a disaster movie. This summer, Trevor O'Donnell, 64, had been reading the [...]

The buses packed with Venezuelan migrants are now arriving in downtown Chicago day and night, doubling in number in recent weeks. City officials are struggling to open more shelters, while [...]

NO MORE CHANGES HERE!! Julie Bosman reports from Chicago for The New York Times. First-time visitors to Chicago can find themselves awe-struck by the sheer scale of the place: the [...]

The clinic had suspended abortions during a legal battle over an 1849 law, which is ongoing. Planned Parenthood said on Thursday it would resume providing abortions in Wisconsin, where the [...]

Concerns about gun violence at large public events leave some contemplating safety measures or even staying home. Luca and Lennyn Fantasia, ages 7 and 5, were bouncing around the Park [...]

Across the nation's middle, unhealthy air from Canadian wildfires sent summer campers home and left residents coughing, and asking when this would end. The Great Lakes region was enveloped in [...]

Chicago residents were warned to stay indoors or wear masks, and the popular paths along Lake Michigan were quiet. Chicago and much of the Upper Midwest were blanketed with a [...]

Michael Tisius, convicted in the murders of two jail guards, is scheduled to be executed on Tuesday. The News Gov. Mike Parson of Missouri said on Monday that he would [...]