Suburban School District Under Fire For Transgender Student Locker Room Policy
A suburban school district is defending its decision to separate a female transgender student in one of the high school's locker rooms.
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A suburban school district is defending its decision to separate a female transgender student in one of the high school's locker rooms.
The two board, eight bag game is popular in backyards and tailgate parties across the country.
WBBM's Lisa Fielding talks with a Chicago retailer in the postseason.
For David Strauss of Slugger's World Class Sports Bar, he, his brothers and his staff have hosted a night like this before.
Cubs fever is sweeping Chicago and the team hopes to blanket the city with "W" flags ahead of tomorrow's big wildcard game.
For co-authors James Murray Jackson and Rod Gailes OBC, Richard Pryor was someone whose life story needed to be told.
Pink supports breast cancer awareness, red brings attention to heart disease but purple is about sarcoidosis.
Long before Andrew Belleson was the voice of Wrigley Field, he was a kid who loved baseball, Harry Caray and the Chicago Cubs.
A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder runs at the Bank of America Theater through October 11.
It started with Lynn Sage in 1985, WBBM's Lisa Fielding reports.
A Northwestern University graduate who traveled to Africa has been using her journalism degree to do more than just tell stories there, she has been giving back to the girls of one of the world's poorest nations.
Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy says a split second decision saved the life of an infant rushed to the hospital after his mother and grandmother were shot and killed.
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders returned to his alma mater on Monday, for his second campaign stop in Chicago since announcing his bid for the Democratic nomination for president in April.
Ten years in the making, the Kerry Wood Cubs Field now shines bright on Chicago's North Side.
Ireland Larson isn't an ordinary kid. She's been waiting for a heart transplant at Lurie Children's Hospital for several months.
An ATM user was able to foil an armed robbery attempt in north suburban Northbrook on Wednesday night.
Each candidate had two go-arounds in the gondola, a total of 15 minutes to make their pitch.
To some, ballpark food is almost as important as the game itself.
The doctors weren't hopeful -- neither was Travonne Wilson after being shot in the neck and spinal cord. But after several months in the hospital on a ventilator, he's walking and talking and healthy again.
For the third year, members of the Trinity International University Trojans football team were holding a fundraiser for a women's shelter for sex trafficking victims in northern India.
A 17-year-old has been charged with a hate crime for attacking a Sikh man last week in west suburban Darien.
Major Diggs Brown spent more than 30 years in the Army. When he returned from Afghanistan, he suffered from PTSD, so for two-and-a-half years, his service dog Arthur has been by his side.
You could say Rocco Caputo grew up at Wrigley Field.
Illinois Crime Commission Chief Jerry Elsner says they put up the reward because this crime was so vicious.
Elizabeth Carlson says in a matter of 24 hours, she and a friend flew to Atlanta, drove to Plains, slept in their car and witnessed something she calls surreal and inspiring.
Officer French was shot and killed in the line of duty during a traffic stop in August of 2021.
Nothing was stolen, but police taped off a section of the facility on Sunday morning as they investigated.
Chicago police do not know if the same suspects targeted both restaurants.
The Chicago Cubs beat the Boston Red Sox 6-2 on Sunday in a regular-season finale that was relocated to Tropicana Field.
President Trump's presence in the Chicagoland area brought crowds of supporters and protesters.
Sheri Mecklenburg resigned from the Department of Justice this week, penning a scathing letter in which she said U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros "personally directed" the Broadview 6 prosecution that she says ended her career.
The Chicago City Council deferred a full vote on the sale of the city's parking meters from one private company to another to their next full council meeting as they face an end-of-month deadline.
In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court sided with the Trump administration in its push to use a controversial database to review state voter rolls for potential noncitizens.
Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth of Illinois is demanding the Pentagon and Federal Aviation Administration reject President Trump's call to convert plans for a massive triumphal arch into a "top grade Military Complex."
With an unprecedented budget, ICE spent billions in a rush to expand its detention network, wasting millions in the process, the Government Accountability Office found.
Scammers are now impersonating the patient portal MyChart, using realistic-looking emails, texts, and websites to try to steal personal information and, in some cases, get malware on your computer.
Fuel prices continue to climb across the country, and that has U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) pointing the finger at President Trump.
Nicor customers will get a break on their bills this fall after Illinois Attorney General Kwame Roul reached an agreement with the utility to cut $140 million from its requested rate hike.
Drivers in Chicago and beyond were paying the highest gas prices ever recorded for the Labor Day holiday as millions of Americans were making their way home on Monday.
Around 115 million domestic and international tourists visited Illinois last year, pushing visitor spending past $50 billion for the first time and generating more than $88 billion in total economic impact.
Sixteen of the state's cases this year trace to an outbreak among people who were unvaccinated or had an unknown vaccination history. Health officials say the overall risk is very low but want residents to confirm they're protected.
The Chicago Department of Public Health on Wednesday launched its first "street psychiatry" teams, in an effort to provide mental health services to some of the city's most vulnerable people.
A new Illinois law lets terminally ill patients request a lethal prescription to end their lives, making the state the 13th in the U.S. — and the first in the Midwest — to permit it.
Nearly half of Americans with medical debt owe at least $2,000, forcing them to make tough choices, new research shows.
A judge on Tuesday was expected to place two shuttered Chicago-area safety-net hospitals into receivership.
McDonald's said Wednesday it will spend $8.5 billion over the next decade to modernize its restaurants globally.
The future of Rate Field was back in the spotlight on Wednesday.
Plans for a new Chicago White Sox stadium in the South Loop have residents near the existing ballpark in Bridgeport concerned, not just because the team might be leaving, but also what might be coming nearby.
A new report from the University of Illinois Chicago said federal immigration enforcement led to $1.26 billion in unspent money at retail establishments and restaurants in Cook County.
Around 115 million domestic and international tourists visited Illinois last year, pushing visitor spending past $50 billion for the first time and generating more than $88 billion in total economic impact.
Madonna was up for 13 awards at the 2026 VMAs — the most of any nominee on MTV's biggest night.
Challenging documentaries and award-winning features are among the offerings of New York City's leading cinema event, starring such luminaries as Pedro Pascal, Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson, Julianne Moore and Godzilla.
Taylor Swift announced her new single "Patient Zero" earlier this week, saying she has been "impatiently waiting" to announce that it will be out on Friday.
A Tennessee judge granted Dolly Parton's estate a temporary restraining order Wednesday against the late singer's nephew Bryan Seaver and his private security company.
An autopsy by the Greenville County Coroner's Office determined Hayden Panettiere's death was due to an accidental overdose of several drugs, including fentanyl.
Fifty scholarships were presented to kids of Chicago officers and those who are enrolled in CPD programs.
The cyclists left the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago on Tuesday and rode through Illinois and Wisconsin before stopping at Pollyanna Brewing Company in St. Charles on Saturday.
Meteorologist Kylee Miller is tracking when those showers will arrive this week in First Alert Weather.
The race started in historic Jackson Park and ran along the lakefront in Kenwood and Hyde Park before heading back south to the finish line.
Nothing was stolen, but police taped off a section of the facility on Sunday morning as they investigated.
President Trump's presence in the Chicagoland area brought crowds of supporters and protesters.
Williams suffered the injury during the fourth quarter of the Bears' home opener against the Minnesota Vikings.
Officer French was shot and killed in the line of duty during a traffic stop in August of 2021.
Nothing was stolen, but police taped off a section of the facility on Sunday morning as they investigated.
The five-day ride helped raise money for pediatric cancer research.
In 2024, an off-duty Chicago police officer shot and killed a dog that was being held by its owner. COPA and CPD Supt. Larry Snelling agreed the officer should be fired. But more than two years later, that hasn't happened.
Surging gas and diesel prices are putting the pinch on farmers with harvest season underway, and could drive grocery prices even further up.
Another business owned by a couple under investigation for mishandling bodies at funeral homes and crematories on the South Side and in the south suburbs was raided by law enforcement Thursday.
Crown Point native Chris Payne was arrested for the 2018 sexual assault of a woman, which he has adamantly claimed from the beginning that he had nothing to do with.
A Chicago nonprofit is suing its former president, accusing him of illegally diverting millions of dollars in charitable funds and jeopardizing the charity's future in fighting homelessness.
The Chicago Cubs beat the Boston Red Sox 6-2 on Sunday in a regular-season finale that was relocated to Tropicana Field.
President Trump's presence in the Chicagoland area brought crowds of supporters and protesters.
The White Sox open their best-of-three AL Wild Card series at either Houston or Texas on Tuesday.
Williams suffered the injury during the fourth quarter of the Bears' home opener against the Minnesota Vikings.
Illinois kept it competitive despite Smith's monster game.
A Chicago violence interrupter is remembered for the difference he tried to make in his South Shore neighborhood. Courtney Harris worked to keep young people away from violence, but died in a shooting over the weekend.
Three men were wounded in a shooting on Thursday night outside a liquor store in the South Chicago neighborhood.
A sixth-grade teacher and basketball coach at a school in Island Lake, Illinois, was arrested Thursday on child pornography charges.
Boise police have identified a man known as the "Unknown Wanderer" who was found dead in a church in 1982, and revealed a possible link to the Chicago Tylenol murders.
A Mundelein, Illinois, high school teacher and volleyball coach appeared in court Wednesday morning on charges of making an unauthorized video recording of a minor.
