Fire Guts Home In Inverness
A fire caused well over a $1 million in damage to a home in Inverness Tuesday night, and two of the more than 100 responding firefighters had to be treated for heat exhaustion.
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A fire caused well over a $1 million in damage to a home in Inverness Tuesday night, and two of the more than 100 responding firefighters had to be treated for heat exhaustion.
The heat and humidity could reach dangerous levels in the Chicago area this week, and could bring heat indexes of 100 degrees or higher for the next four days.
An Englewood man who served in the Air Force during the Vietnam and Korean wars said he's overwhelmed by the generosity of volunteers who recently fixed up his house.
Activists and neighbors showed up at a retired Chicago police officer's home in Bronzeville on Wednesday, hoping to prevent her from being evicted again.
Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart said his department doesn't have the manpower, the time, or the money to properly conduct background checks for those who want to carry concealed weapons within the time required under a new state law.
If Indiana is any indicator, it might end up costing the state of Illinois much-needed revenue if the governor signs off on legislation to raise the speed limit on most Interstate highways and tollways to 70 mph.
Gov. Pat Quinn is trying to head off an override of the changes he made to the concealed carry legislation that passed in the Illinois House and Senate by wide margins, by launching a PR campaign ahead of Tuesday's legislative session.
Two sisters in law were seriously hurt Thursday night during an illegal fireworks display at a park on the Southwest Side.
Dunton Avenue in Arlington Heights was awash in red, white, and blue; as families lined the street to cheer veterans, bands, and – sometimes – politicians marching in the village's parade.
After years of prayers and appeals by parishioners and preservationists, the Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago has called in the wrecking crews this morning to begin demolition of the historic St. James Church in Bronzeville.
A Chicago woman who lost her father and stepmother in the crash of TWA Flight 800 in 1996 said she doesn't believe claims made in a new documentary that the plane was brought down by a missile and was covered up by government investigators.
The family of a University of Chicago student whose body was found in Lake Michigan on Wednesday, a week after he went missing, said the death appeared to be a tragic accident during last week's heavy storms.
The museum opened its new "80 at 80" exhibit, featuring 80 artifacts from the museum's collection, including several rarely seen items.
"It's been a dirty week for Lake Michigan," said Basil Tydings, an East Coast transplant who frequently surfs and rides a stand-up paddleboard in the lake.
About 500 residents of a low-income housing development in Glen Ellyn have been told their apartments are part of a proposed TIF district, and they should reasonably expect to be displaced.
Indiana environmental officials were investigating whether a Porter County manufacturer was responsible for a slick of glittery material that kept many swimmers out of Porter Beach on Monday.
A Northwest Side business owner is now off the hook, after getting a ticket from the city last week for allegedly dumping snow into the street three months ago.
Sun-Times photojournalists who were fired last week staged a protest rally – along with some of their family members, former colleagues and other supporters – outside the newspaper's offices in the River North neighborhood on Thursday.
Some Cook County Jail inmates and others arrested in the county will soon have to give DNA samples, now that the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that taking such samples after an arrest does not amount to an "unreasonable search."
A West suburban shopping mall is telling teenagers to find another place to hang out at night on the weekend.
13-year-old Pranav Sivakumar was tripped up by "cyanophycean," a type of algae. He mistakenly spelled it with an "i" in place of the last "a."
A group of parents from three elementary schools that are closing on the South Side took a trip to the North Side on Thursday, and tried to enroll their kids at a school whose name is synonymous with wealth and privilege.
Ginger Frey didn't just save some ducklings that were stuck in a sewer grate. She was at it for four days, refusing to give up.
A south suburban man whose hobby is chasing storms was in Moore, Okla., on Monday when a massive tornado devastated the town, killing at least 24 people.
The Aurora Police Department has begun rebuilding its canine unit, after disbanding it a couple years ago, and officials are getting some help to pay for dog food and other supplies.
