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When art gets stolen, it's rarely recovered. However, on Thursday, a west suburban artist re-claimed 13 paintings she hasn't seen in almost a year.
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When art gets stolen, it's rarely recovered. However, on Thursday, a west suburban artist re-claimed 13 paintings she hasn't seen in almost a year.
Police have issued an alert after a couple of late-night incidents in the River North area in which young men have punched people walking down the street, then robbed of money and cell phones.
George Koukos became upset when an inflatable rat used by Teamsters pickeding in the Loop blocked his way into a building where he was going for a moving job.
Police were warning families to be on alert, after an attempted abduction Wednesday afternoon in the Lawndale neighborhood.
The woman, 25, was walking in the 4800 block of South Laflin Street when a group of males and females approached her and exchanged words, then knocked her to the ground and beat her.
Police are looking for a man who tried to lure a girl into a van in the Kenwood neighborhood Tuesday night on the South Side.
A man arrested in west suburban Bellwood a few hours after fatally shooting a woman in a domestic dispute in the Lawndale neighborhood Monday night has been charged with her murder, according to police.
A 39-year-old man was shot and killed in a church parking lot in the Auburn-Gresham neighborhood on Wednesday.
The shooting happened about 12:50 a.m. in the 1400 block of South Ridgeway Avenue.
A Chicago man has been charged with shooting a 7-year-old boy, as the child was attending a family barbecue on the 4th of July.
A northwest suburban man who thought he was meeting a 14-year-old girl for sex last week was instead met by a Lake County Sheriff's detective who had replied to his online ad for a "companion."
Police were warning women in a trendy North Side neighborhood to take extra precautions, after a woman was brutally attacked while waiting for a bus.
A west suburban man died Monday after being shot by a Kane County Sheriff's sergeant when he pointed a gun at deputies, authorities said.
bout 11:25 p.m. the man was in the 100 block of East 117th Place when he was shot in the chest, backside, and arm.
Three people -- including a 15-year-old boy -- were fatally shot Monday afternoon on the West Side, police said.
A neighborhood security camera line was cut just days before a Chicago woman is found murdered. Could it be a clue in the case?
Some of the young men teaming up the court are rivals on the street, but the PeaceMakers basketball league says it's serious about posting up against violence.
After a violent and deadly holiday weekend, a Chicago Congresswoman is calling for gun control legislation, reports WBBM's Brandis Friedman.
A teenage boy was shot dead Monday evening in the West Garfield Park neighborhood, police said.
A man was shot dead Monday afternoon in a West Garfield Park neighborhood gas station, police said.
The elderly victim told police she was walking to the Church of the Nazarene at 1501 S. Linneman Road in Mount Prospect about 6 a.m. Sunday when the attack occurred.
Nathan Hiatt, 29, allegedly struck the sleeping boy with the utensil about 1 a.m. Saturday in a home in the 15100 block of 131st Street in an unincorporated area near Lemont.
Ana Claudia Gomez was in Chicago to help her father in an eviction case Friday morning when deputies at a courthouse screening station discovered a semi-automatic 9-mm handgun in her purse, Cook County police say.
Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy said Monday that his crime-fighting strategies are "clearly working," even though he was "disappointed" at the number of shootings across the city during the long July 4th weekend.
The governor said the shootings – with victims ranging from a 5-year-old watching fireworks to an elderly woman on her porch – are unacceptable.
The former UIC Flames coach is back leading young men at the high school level, this time at Lincoln-Way East in the south Chicago suburb of Frankfort.
Chicago police were in a standoff Sunday morning in the South Shore neighborhood.
The Transportation Security Administration has begun imposing an additional charge on passengers without enhanced identification.
A pedestrian was struck in a crash that involved at least six vehicles and shut down a portion of the Edens Expressway in Chicago's north suburbs early Sunday.
Ayo Dosunmu scored a season-high 29 points and the short-handed Chicago Bulls topped the Miami Heat 125-118 on Saturday night.
Funding for many federal agencies expired on Saturday after Congress failed to pass half a dozen spending bills before the deadline, prompting a partial government shutdown.
The Justice Department released more new documents Friday from the Jeffrey Epstein files, more than a month after the DOJ's original deadline to do so.
The Senate passed a deal on a package of spending bills late Friday, sending it to the House, though funding for dozens of government agencies has still lapsed.
President Trump says he is nominating Kevin Warsh to be the next chair of the Federal Reserve, filling a powerful economic policy role as the president pushes for lower interest rates.
President Trump is suing the Internal Revenue Service and Treasury Department for at least $10 billion, claiming the agencies unlawfully allowed an IRS contractor to leak his tax returns and those of his sons and company.
This week marks Identity Theft Awareness Week, and Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza emphasized some safety tips Monday for avoiding and dealing with identity theft.
A controversial data center in Naperville, Illinois, could be the cause to pack a city council meeting there on Tuesday night.
Police in the west Chicago suburb of Geneva are warning of a scam involving spoofed phone numbers.
Protesters on Tuesday were cranking up the heat on Peoples Gas over a recently proposed rate hike that would add an additional $10 to $11 a month to utility bills.
A lawsuit filed late last month took Chicago-based McDonald's to task over the McRib sandwich, calling its name a form of false advertising.
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital announced this week that it is planning to open a new pediatric hospital in the west Chicago suburb of Downers Grove.
It has been nearly six years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and one of the many questions doctors are still working to answer concerns the long-term effects.
Leaders from Cook County, the Illinois Department of Human Services, and the Greater Chicago Food Depository denounced changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program on Wednesday.
The University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center has received a grant from The Ralph Lauren Corporate Foundation for a new cancer center.
Chicago's Lurie Children's Hospital said Tuesday that it is no longer initiating gender-affirming medical treatment for minors.
January may be the coldest time of the year, but Chicago is already looking forward to summer farmers' markets.
A development proposal issued this month calls for the replacement of a building housing a Giordiano's pizzeria in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood with a new mixed-use building with 28 residential units.
United Airlines flight attendants picketed outside Chicago's Willis Tower Thursday morning as they fought for a new contract.
WSCR-AM, 670 The Score, will begin a simulcast on 104.3 FM next month.
Does the Chicago Bears' dramatic improvement this season, culminating in their first playoff run in five years, change the discussion about where they will build a new stadium?
Catherine O'Hara was best known for her comic performances in projects including "Home Alone," "Beetlejuice," and "Schitt's Creek."
Skiing great Lindsey Vonn crashed in her final downhill before the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics.
Among the 25 films selected by the Library of Congress to be preserved for future generations are "The Big Chill," Wes Anderson's "The Grand Budapest Hotel," the Civil War drama "Glory," and John Carpenter's "The Thing."
In a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal, Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, revealed that the right frontal lobe of his brain was injured in a car accident 25 years ago.
Sales of tickets to NHL games jumped more than 20% after the hit HBO show debuted in the fall, according to ticket vendor.
Suzanne Le Mignot recently spent her 56th birthday in Panama and shows us some scenes, while Mary Kay Kleist and her husband, Mark Zonca, celebrated their 30th anniversary in Palm Beach.
The former UIC Flames coach is back leading young men at the high school level, this time at Lincoln-Way East in the south Chicago suburb of Frankfort. Jori Parys reports.
A pedestrian was struck in a crash that involved six vehicles and shut down a portion of the Edens Expressway in Chicago’s north suburbs early Sunday.
Meteorologist Mary Kay Kleist has your 6 a.m. First Alert Weather forecast for Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026.
The items are in the exhibition "Stories of Survival: Object, Image, Memory" at the Illinois Holocaust Museum presents Experience360. Joe Donlon reports.
The Transportation Security Administration has begun imposing an additional charge on passengers without enhanced identification.
Some are concerned the change could cause hundreds of thousands of people in Illinois to lose their benefits.
A pedestrian was struck in a crash that involved at least six vehicles and shut down a portion of the Edens Expressway in Chicago's north suburbs early Sunday.
The signing comes amid reports of another federal immigration surge planned in Chicago, possibly in the spring.
They are in the exhibition "Stories of Survival: Object, Image, Memory" at the Illinois Holocaust Museum presents Experience360.
Former Mayor Rahm Emanuel no longer will have to testify about an alleged "code of silence" at the Chicago Police Department, after a federal judge reversed an earlier ruling that would have required him to take the stand in a lawsuit over a botched police raid.
John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County, the busiest trauma center in Illinois, is sounding an alarm, as doctors brace for an influx of patients because of federal funding cuts under the Trump administration's "One Big Beautiful Bill Act."
A Lake County woman has a warning for other homeowners, after she said a contractor took thousands of dollars, destroyed part of her home, and then vanished, even leaving his tools behind.
The crash on June 7, 2024, killed 76-year-old Bernice Pawilan. The driver had a history of traffic offenses, and, in fact, wasn't supposed to be on the road at all.
A town hall meeting on Monday night addressed the concerns of residents paying higher water bills after being forced to use a private utility company.
The former UIC Flames coach is back leading young men at the high school level, this time at Lincoln-Way East in the south Chicago suburb of Frankfort.
Ayo Dosunmu scored a season-high 29 points and the short-handed Chicago Bulls topped the Miami Heat 125-118 on Saturday night.
The Sacramento Kings are acquiring De'Andre Hunter from the Cleveland Cavaliers in a deal that sends forward Dario Saric and two future second-round picks to the Chicago Bulls, according to a league source.
Tre Carroll led Xavier with 21 points and Filip Borovicanin hit the game-winning buzzer beater as the Musketeers defeated DePaul 68-66 on Saturday.
Charlie Coyle had his second career hat trick, Mathieu Olivier added a goal and an assist and the Columbus Blue Jackets beat the Chicago Blackhawks 4-2 on Friday night.
Chicago police were in a standoff Sunday morning in the South Shore neighborhood.
It was Thanksgiving Eve 2020, and Melissa Lamesch was excited about the upcoming birth of her first child. Investigators would learn there was someone who was not as enthused — the expectant father, firefighter Matthew Plote.
A Chicago man has been sentenced to 65 years in prison for the execution-style murder of a senior citizen in Chinatown in 2021.
Brendan Banfield testified that he did not fatally stab his wife in 2023, but instead shot the man who did.
A jury has found a Wisconsin man guilty of forging threats against President Donald Trump in an attempt to get a witness against him deported.
