Snow-Packed Roads Lead To Dicey Travel Conditions On Tri-State Tollway
Roads are snow-packed throughout the Chicagoland area, treacherous in many spots.
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Roads are snow-packed throughout the Chicagoland area, treacherous in many spots.
Teachers for West Chicago Community High School are taking a job action short of a strike, for now, as they try to negotiate a contract with District 94.
Another Aurora school is canceling classes because of the spread of the flu.
Tinley Park police said last week's 10th anniversary of the Lane Bryant massacre has prompted some new tips in the case
A north suburban kindergartener whose father was killed in a military training accident last year will be getting a special escort to a Father-Daughter dance on Wednesday.
Around 3:15 a.m., the Fire Department responded to a blaze at a two-story apartment building near Pulaski and Wilcox.
A local preservation group said it has two people who are seriously considering rescuing the facade of a nearly 100-year-old building on the Near West Side.
Illinois State Police said tollway surveillance cameras and interviews of out-of-state witnesses helped investigators and prosecutors bring reckless homicide charges against a 26-year-old Ohio truck driver this week.
Police from 30 suburban departments in Cook County are going to soon be trained and equipped with Narcan to try to save the lives of people overdosing on opioids.
The fare hikes and service reductions were approved as part of the rail agency's $797 million budget and capital program for 2018, and will help eliminate a $45 million deficit.
Ricardo Burgos, who performs under the name "Nation," has been sentenced to more than 15 years in prison.
Last year, approximately 350 correctional officers called in "sick."
The extra-alarm blaze started around 1:30 a.m. at a 16-unit apartment building near 67th and Park.
No one in the home was injured, police said.
A decline in enrollment is prompting a move to close Fox Ridge Elementary in St. Charles District 303.
Mario Scott, a convicted felon, has been charged with one count each of attempted murder and aggravated battery with a firearm.
Four Chicago police officers were hailed as heroes for helping rescue a family from an "intense" fire early Monday, but in the eyes of their wives, they were "crazy to run in a burning building."
A 24-year old man has been arrested for a mall parking lot robbery from almost two-and-a-half years ago, thanks to DNA information and a timely traffic stop.
The Chicago Department of Public Health says not to be deterred because of reports that the flu vaccine is only 10 percent effective.
A record low 6 percent of Chicago high schoolers reported smoking cigarettes in 2017, according to a new health department report.
Shortly after midnight, the officers were on patrol in the 3900 block of West Congress Parkway, when they saw a two-story brownstone on fire.
Two robberies occurred this week on South Langley Avenue when victims agreed to purchase a cell phone online and arrived at an agreed upon location, Chicago Police said. In each incident, an offender armed with a black handgun demanded their property, police said.
The new map of the CTA's "preferred alignment" would use elements of two paths the transit agency had been considering for the extension.
Aurora police are trying to find the driver of a vehicle that hit a homeless man who died a few hours later.
It's clear by one northwest Indiana man's obituary this week that his life was full of good humor, irreverence and love.
