Amtrak Prepares For Busiest Thanksgiving Travel Day
Amtrak is calling Sunday the busiest day of the Thanksgiving travel week.
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Amtrak is calling Sunday the busiest day of the Thanksgiving travel week.
Mayor Emanuel announced Sunday a new partnership between Chicago Transit Authority and Chicago Public Library.
Federal prosecutors have alleged former Ald. Edward Vrdolyak schemed with two attorneys to get a cut of legal fees from the state of Illinois' lawsuit against tobacco companies in the 1990s, despite not being authorized to work on the case and doing no work on the lawsuit.
Tinley Park police have issued a warning after an 18-year-old woman was involved in a road rage incident.
Chicago Police officers shot and wounded two suspects in separate incidents on the South Side overnight – bringing the total to six police-involved shootings in Chicago in about the past 10 days.
The city has been faced with another bloody weekend, as at least nine people have died from gun violence and more than two dozen others have been hurt in Chicago since Friday afternoon.
Students moved into a new dormitory at Northern Illinois University this week, and they're paying as much as $6,500 a semester for the privilege to live there.
Drivers whose vehicles have been affected by bad gas from BP are threatening to take action.
The name of a retired Chicago police officer who friends say had a heart for the poor is now on the memorial wall for all to see, at Gold Star Families Memorial Park alongside Soldier Field.
A fugitive who was featured on "America's Most Wanted" for a double murder in Yonkers, N.Y., has been found in Chicago.
The village of Tinley Park has reconsidered a possible full outdoor watering ban, after getting some rain overnight.
Believe it or not, the drought has one benefit for Illinois farmers – this year's crop of peaches may taste sweeter than last year's.
While dogs and cats do not suffer heart attacks the way people do, researchers have come up with a set of recommendations on how to revive loved pets if their heart stops.
The family of a John Doe who went unidentified for several months is now suing the Cook county Medical Examiner's office.
A Willowbrook couple filed a lawsuit Wednesday claiming a school bus driver sexually assaulted their 3-year-old twins while transporting them to and from special education preschool classes.
Are Tax Increment Financing District funds fairly distributed when it comes to Chicago schools? A sociology professor who has looked at the books thinks not.
The Emanuel administration is expected to release a report later Wednesday, showing that absenteeism among employees in the Department of Streets and Sanitation is down.
A Round Lake teenager saved Mothers Day for her neighbors, when she saved the lives of a woman and her toddler from their burning home Saturday night.
About 40,000 people took a walk on the lakefront on Sunday, for the 21st Annual Y-Me "Race At Your Pace," a 5K to support breast cancer patients.
The Chicago City Council is expected to vote this week on the mayor's controversial plan to use cameras to catch speeders near schools and parks.
In Indiana, girls have a higher chance of becoming the victim of sexual assault than almost any other place in the country.
Fair housing issues will come into focus in the coming weeks in Illinois as the state recognizes April as Fair Housing Month.
Cook County Forest Preserve officials expect to add more land this year, and also make repairs to some picnic enclosures.
The pastor of a West Side church says 57 young lives have been lost to gun violence in Chicago since the beginning of the school year, so he's calling on his congregation to show their outrage over the loss of innocent lives, including Florida teenager Trayvon Martin.
On this Palm Sunday, Christians in the Logan Square neighborhood called for improvements in housing, healthcare, hunger and immigration reform.
