At Issue: Illinois House GOP Leader Defends School-Funding Compromise
James Durkin says Chicago Public Schools needed the money and Democrats were going to get it somehow. WBBM's Craig Dellimore reports.
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James Durkin says Chicago Public Schools needed the money and Democrats were going to get it somehow. WBBM's Craig Dellimore reports.
The recording artist raised more than $2 million for arts and music programs at 20 Chicago public schools.
The Chicago Department of Public Health announced Friday a salmonella outbreak linked to a Morgan Park neighborhood barbecue restaurant on Chicago's Far South Side.
The beach hazard is in effect through Friday evening, according to the National Weather Service.
Chicago's 39th annual Jazz Festival kicks off this weekend in Millennium Park.
That really was the "Devil in the White City" executed and buried in 1896 in Pennsylvania, according to an exhumation and scientific tests.
IEMA director James Joseph said their assessment found more than 3,200 homes in northern Illinois were damaged by flooding.
On this day in America, hundreds of thousands of people watched, and waited, for a pumpkin to hatch a coffee drink.
DuPage Water Commission officials said it is unlikely the drinking water system in Illinois would flood, as the one did in Beaumont, Texas.
The Whoa Zone, a floating obstacle course at Whihala Beach in Whiting, Indiana, closed early for the season on Thursday after high waves and wind damaged the inflatable sports and water park.
With more than 14,000 cell phones stolen in Chicago last year, police have been targeting stores that re-sell them.
Robbers who lured victims with an online dating site struck three times in one hour early Tuesday in the Lawndale neighborhood on the Southwest Side.
Halloween is a fun night of trick-or-treating for kids and a big responsibility for parents keeping them safe while crossing the street.
A police dog helped officers locate a missing man suffering from mental health problems last week in northwest suburban Barrington.
Key Chicago Aldermen are optimistic that the latest framework for police oversight is going to give the public confidence in efforts to reform police practices and procedures.
