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A 19-year-old suburban resident has been arrested and charged after he allegedly caused a wrong-way crash on Chicago’s Near North Side and t...

All Illinois children will soon be eligible for covered blood tests for lead contamination under a new policy rolling out this week.Begi...

If you have a penchant for Polish sausage and a thick mustache — or maybe a golden retriever — Hallmark may be searching for you.Casting...

An Amazon facility in suburban Matteson was on lockdown early Monday morning after an employee was shot and killed in the parking lot, a vil...

More than a million people are gathering on Chicago’s North Side to watch the dazzling annual Chicago Pride Parade on Sunday, marking the 55...

The month of June is almost at an end, and just before we officially hit the halfway mark of 2026, the “strawberry moon” will rise in the sk...

Students and faculty are being asked to avoid part of the campus of the University of Illinois-Chicago after a hazardous material spill Satu...

Pope Leo XIV may be the world’s most famous Chicago White Sox fan (though he’s competing with former President Barack Obama in that category...

The 2026 Chicago Pride Parade will step off on Sunday morning on the city’s North Side, and hundreds of thousands of revelers are expected f...

The death toll from Wednesday’s devastating earthquakes in Venezuela have risen, with at least 14,000 people killed and another 3,000 others...

Those of legal drinking age have been able to get cocktails to go in Illinois for several years now, under a pandemic-era law.Now, that...

Casey’s General Stores, the nation’s third-largest convenience store retailer, is planning a major expansion over the coming years, complete...

The National Weather Service has issued an extreme heat watch in the coming days as temperatures climb to dangerous levels, with heat index...

Smoke was seen pouring out of a warehouse during a fire Saturday morning on Chicago’s Lower West Side, authorities said.The fire was rep...

The Chicago Pride Parade, a decades-old North Side tradition, is expected to bring hundreds of thousands to the city on Sunday in what organ...

One person died in a crash after a vehicle struck a car and and an Illinois Department of Transportation SUV that were stopped along Interst...

While the Chicago area has grown used to cooler weather in recent days, that’s about to change, with dangerous heat on the way as temperatur...

A woman was taken into custody for a deadly shooting in the city’s Humboldt Park neighborhood, police said Friday. The shooting was repo...

Chicago’s Northhalsted neighborhood will see an influx of visitors on Sunday as Chicago’s annual Pride Parade gets underway, with hundreds o...

An heir to the Walmart fortune, Lukas Walton, and his wife, Samantha, have purchased a minority stake in the Chicago Bulls and the United Ce...

A Chicago man who is a teacher at an Illinois high school was charged by federal prosecutors with transporting child pornography on a flight...

Elgin police released new details on what led to a large police presence as first responders descended on the city’s downtown, sparking an h...

A Chicago resident faces charges after federal agents said he played a role in a potential plot to attack the White House during the recent...

A “likely tornado” hit a Chicago suburb during severe storms earlier this week, but no siren ever sounded in the area, leaving residents won...

Carlos Mendoza was fired as manager of the underperforming New York Mets on Friday and replaced by Andy Green.New York is 34-47 at the s...