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The ACLU of Illinois and Lambda Legal on Wednesday plan to file legal challenges to Illinois' gay marriage ban. The ACLU of Illinois and Lambda Legal on Wednesday plan to file legal challenges to Illinois' gay marriage ban. The two separate lawsuits represent more than two dozen gay and lesbian couples who wish to marry in Illinois but are unable because state law defines marriage a heterosexual union. The move comes one year after Illinois legalized civil unions for gay couples and two weeks after President Barack Obama endorsed gay marriage. Obama represented Illinois as a senator. Lead plaintiffs in the ACLU case, which has 9 couples, are Tanya Lazaro and Elizabeth ?Liz? Matos of Chicago. The couple is raising two daughters, two-year-old Jaiden and newborn Sophia. They have rejected the idea of entering a civil union. ?Our relationship is not about some legal benefits and protections, but about love for one another,? Lazaro, a Chicago Police Department Detective, said in a statement

Protesters clashed with riot police as an anti-NATO protest turned ugly in Chicago when a few hundred demonstrators demanding an end to war ignored orders to clear the streets.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A 15-year-old Chicago boy's winning design to appear on the city's next vehicle sticker was scrapped on Wednesday after crime experts declared it may contain gang signs and symbols.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Prosecutors in Chicago on Thursday said they charged fifteen men with gun trafficking as part of a crackdown on illegal gun sales to gangs.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Federal agents at Chicago's O'Hare Airport averted "a potential catastrophic event" when they stopped a package containing a live military flare from being loaded onto a flight to Japan, a federal agency said on Monday.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Federal agents at Chicago's O'Hare Airport averted "a potential catastrophic event" when they stopped a package containing a live military flare from being loaded onto a flight to Japan, a federal agency said on Monday.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Federal agents at Chicago's O'Hare Airport averted "a potential catastrophic event" when they stopped a package containing a live military flare from being loaded onto a flight to Japan, a federal agency said on Monday.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Homicide detectives were still working on Thursday to piece together details of a gunfight inside a store on Chicago's south side overnight that killed four people and wounded two others, a spokeswoman for the Chicago Police Department said.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A Chicago alderman proposed an ordinance on Wednesday to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana in a move supporters say would help raise city revenue and free up police to pursue more serious crimes.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A baggage handler at O'Hare International Airport was hospitalized on Tuesday after a small explosion believed to be caused by an exploding battery, officials said Tuesday.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Police arrested around 175 demonstrators at a nascent protest camp in a downtown Chicago park early on Sunday, hauling them away in vans and buses even as protesters vowed to carry on their campaign against economic inequality.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago police arrested 21 people protesting against economic inequality on Tuesday at two rallies, charging them with trespassing, a Chicago Police spokesman said.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - New Mayor Rahm Emanuel wants to make Chicago the most bike-friendly place in the United States, building on a long pedigree of bike advocacy in the city that dates to the 19th century.

A vast network of high-tech surveillance cameras that allows Chicago police to zoom in on a crime in progress and track suspects across the city is raising privacy concerns.

A former senior Chicago police commander has been sentenced to 4.5 years prison for lying about police torture and abuse, the US Justice Department said.

Police fatalities jump 37 percent in 2010, fueled by killings of multiple officers. Two officers in a remote Alaska town were ambushed as they chatted on a street. A California officer and deputy were killed by an arson suspect with a high-powered rifle as they tried to serve a warrant. Two other officers doing anti-drug work were gunned down by men along a busy Arkansas highway.

Report: Authorities say fire that killed 2 Chicago firefighters started as rubbish fire. Fire officials say a blaze that killed two Chicago firefighters earlier this week was caused by wood or rubbish that was started on fire.

Chicago gang members tell police chief he isn't playing fair with message to stop killings. Calling the Chicago police chief's ultimatum to stop resorting to violence a waste of time, current and former members of some of the city's most notorious street gangs held an unlikely news conference on Thursday to send their own message to police: You're not playing fair.

Chicago police officer just back from Iraq is killed in robbery attempt outside family home. A 30-year-old Chicago police officer who recently returned from a tour of duty in Iraq was shot and killed when several people approached him outside his family's home and tried to steal his new motorcycle, authorities said Thursday.

Lawyers for Chicago police seek notes of Wash. journalism professor who questioned boy's guilt. Lawyers for Chicago police officers being sued by an exonerated murder convict have subpoenaed the notes of a Western Washington University journalism professor who 16 years ago wrote stories questioning his guilt.