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Greg Zanis loaded his truck with about 60 homemade crosses that will be erected in honor of the victims of the Las Vegas massacre.
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Greg Zanis loaded his truck with about 60 homemade crosses that will be erected in honor of the victims of the Las Vegas massacre.
A high school student was killed in a crash late Tuesday afternoon while on the way home from a golf tournament in Kane County.
Elisha Seng can hardly believe she survived. She said she's just looking forward to being able to hug her children again.
The Chicago-born Hefner was credited -- or blamed -- with pushing the boundaries of adult entertainment with the magazine's launch in 1953.
Mayor Rahm Emamuel wasn't shy about touting Chicago as the right place at the right time for Amazon's second headquarters.
The school's principal sent a letter to parents Monday telling them officials began investigating hazing reports over the weekend and notified Skokie police.
Police in the West Lawn community have issued a community alert warning residents that a would-be kidnapper might be on the prowl.
Forget what the calendar says. It might be the first day of fall, but it feels like the middle of summer.
San Juan Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport partially reopened Friday, and the first flight from Chicago left O'Hare before dawn.
Carletta May said a boy brought multiple small bags of cocaine to school, and five children were taken to hospitals after they ingested it.
A walk to school turned into a terrifying ordeal for a teenager Wednesday morning in the Woodlawn neighborhood.
A federal judge ruled the people living in the tents under two Lake Shore Drive viaducts have no constitutional right to stay.
Chicago crisis responder Andrew Holmes helped shed some light on the 19-year-old's mysterious death.
It would be the fourth increase in four years. Riders are not happy.
Police said most of the robberies involved single female victims who were held up at gunpoint in some cases.
Now that Irma has moved out of Florida, airlines have resumed flights to the Sunshine State, as the repair and recovery process begins.
Time is ticking for travel between Chicago and Florida before Hurricane Irma hits the U.S.
Airlines are keeping a close eye on Irma, which was still a catastrophic category 5 hurricane Thursday as it churned across the Caribbean.
If a judge approves prosecutors' request, McCormack would be held indefinitely at the state detention center in Rushville.
The Trump administration is set to roll back the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
Summer 2017 has shifted to the rear view mirror, and it's time for Chicago Public Schools students to go back to class.
Members of the church are getting ready to head out to Rockport, Texas, one of the first towns that was devastated by Hurricane Harvey.
The People's Animal Welfare Society of Tinley Park brought back 18 dogs from a Houston area shelter that was inundated with flooding.
The city's top cop revealed he suffers from a rare kidney disease earlier this year, after falling ill at a press conference in January.
For some Houston residents who were out of town when Hurricane Harvey hit are now trying to get home.
Sunday's weather had feels-like temperatures between 100 and 105 degrees, which had residents finding ways to keep cool.
Three people were killed and four others wounded in a shooting during a food festival at the Seattle Center near the Space Needle, police said. A suspect was in custody and another was being sought, they said.
A spokesperson for Metra said an inbound 720 train hit the victim at the crossing at Smith and Wood Streets, adjacent to the Palatine station.
The suspect was taken into custody early Sunday morning and charged with reckless homicide and aggrvated DUI.
Joliet police officers found the 50-year-old man and a 46-year-old woman, both of whom appeared to have suffered stab wounds early Sunday morning.
President Trump cracked jokes at the redo of the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Friday night, after an armed assailant upended April's dinner.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has purchased commercial spyware that can covertly take control of phones, collect messages, photos and location information.
A new lawsuit argues that Wisconsin's elections commission is wrongly blocking absentee voters from canceling their ballots and requesting new ones, with nearly 91,000 ballots already returned ahead of the Aug. 11 primary.
The Illinois Legislative Ethics Commission voted on Thursday to publish a report outlining details of the investigation that led to state Rep. Harry Benton (D-Chicago) to resign his post earlier this month.
Voters in Chicago will have a chance to decide in November if the city should go after the federal government for money spent dealing with the Trump Administration's immigration crackdown and Operation Midway Blitz.
The Trump administration is taking aim at power grid operator PJM Interconnection over rising electricity bills that affect Illinois and Indiana residents.
Chicago remained the most bed bug-treated city in the country, according to Orkin's latest annual rankings covering a full year of residential and commercial treatment data.
Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul this week warned residents cleaning up from last month's storms to be on the lookout for scams.
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker on Thursday signed several new consumer protections into law, including a ban on junk fees.
CBS News Chicago has learned that Illinois home insurance premiums are not only higher than the nation's average, but going up faster too.
East Chicago, Indiana is being placed on a precautionary boil water advisory starting Monday morning for planned installations that could affect water safety.
A new Northwestern Medicine study on long COVID shows women show more neurological symptoms than men.
A lettuce supplier to fast-food giant Taco Bell has been linked to a nationwide cyclosporiasis outbreak that has sickened thousands of people, the CDC said.
Chicago just barely made the top 20 in the American College of Sports Medicine's 2026 ranking of the country's fittest cities.
In a major turnaround in the opioid crisis, overdose deaths are falling across Chicago and Cook County.
The food deserts on Chicago's South and West sides could spread even wider if seven Save A Lot grocery stores close.
Illinois American Water and Aqua Illinois are both seeking rate increases that would raise monthly bills by as much as $28, while their parent companies seek regulatory approval to merge — a deal a consumer watchdog says would give one company control of nearly all regulated water customers in the state.
The Federal Trade Commission and attorneys general from several states secured a right-to-repair settlement Wednesday with agriculture equipment giant Deere & Co. — commonly known as John Deere — that requires the company to let farmers and independent shops fix their own equipment.
Chicago Soul Café opened Monday at 6248 S. St. Lawrence Ave.
The Chicago Bears this weekend said they are assessing land at Wolf Lake Terminals in Hammond, Indiana, for a possible new stadium.
Paramount Skydance on Friday said it would delay the deal until as late as June 2027.
Iowa announced a fall exhibition game against Kansas at the Field of Dreams ballpark, where major and minor league games have been played since 2021.
Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey" is the first film shot entirely on 70mm IMAX cameras, and Cinemark Seven Bridges in Woodridge is 1 of roughly 30 theaters nationwide equipped to show it that way.
Brenda Fricker won an Academy Award for 1989's "My Left Foot," played the Pigeon Lady in "Home Alone 2" and appeared in "A Time to Kill" and "So I Married an Axe Murderer."
The actor's agent said he was providing more information following news reports "which contain inaccuracies and outright falsehoods."
Five years ago, the pup named Chong escaped his home near Lincoln, Nebraska. Someone else happened to get him microchipped before he ended up 642 miles away behind a truck stop in Indiana.
Thousands gathered for a community vigil in the German capital honoring one woman who was killed and 29 others who were hurt.
Palatine and Metra police are investigating after a woman was fatally hit by a Metra Union Pacific Northwest train on Sunday afternoon.
Survivors participated in the annual walk hosted by the Lymphoma Research Foundation to raise money for a cure for lymphoma.
For some, the quickest cool down came from the lake—whether they waded in or went by boat.
The suspect was taken into custody early Sunday morning and charged with reckless homicide and aggrvated DUI.
A mass shooting sent six people to the hospital in Chicago's Humboldt Park community early Sunday morning.
Sunday's weather had feels-like temperatures between 100 and 105 degrees, which had residents finding ways to keep cool.
Three people were killed and four others wounded in a shooting during a food festival at the Seattle Center near the Space Needle, police said. A suspect was in custody and another was being sought, they said.
A spokesperson for Metra said an inbound 720 train hit the victim at the crossing at Smith and Wood Streets, adjacent to the Palatine station.
While Mayor Brandon Johnson hasn't announced if he will run for re-election next year, he's boasting about lower vacancy rates for Mag Mile buildings and taking credit for the positive changes.
A Lockport foster parent said he lost his kids, job and home for months after a mix-up that landed his name on the Illinois Sex Offender Registry.
Record heat and major air quality issues created by wildfire smoke were key topics as some of the top climate leaders from around the world gathered in Chicago this week for the Aspen Institute's annual climate summit.
Police say a man and a woman were last seen speaking with the victim before the shooting.
Neighbors in the Avalon Park neighborhood said their community has been plagued by squatters, weeds, rats, and water leaks – all thanks to an abandoned home that's been sitting vacant for years.
Murakami hit a 385-foot, two-run homer in the bottom of the first that gave Chicago its first lead of the game. It was his first homer since May 27th.
Ryan O'Hearn hit a grand slam on his 33rd birthday, as the Pirates held off the Cubs 8-7 to avoid being swept in the three-game series.
The south Chicago suburb of Robbins, Illinois, on Sunday honored retired NBA basketball player Dwyane Wade with a new street name and a day of celebration.
The WNBA celebrated its 30th season by holding its first All-Star Game in Chicago since 2022.
Jeremy Peña finished with three of Houston's six hits and scored twice.
Three people were killed and four others wounded in a shooting during a food festival at the Seattle Center near the Space Needle, police said. A suspect was in custody and another was being sought, they said.
Chicago police on Sunday issued a community alert after two violent robberies in the South Loop area this weekend.
Chicago police this weekend issued a warning about robbers targeting victims who are trying to sell cellphones online on Chicago's West Side.
Two men and a woman were killed, and another woman was critically injured, when a vehicle hit a train during a police pursuit through Chicago's Southwest Side early Sunday morning.
A man was killed and a woman was wounded early Sunday morning in a shooting in the South Chicago community early Sunday.
