Firefighter Injured In Extra-Alarm West Side Fire
A firefighter was injured while battling a blaze that fully engulfed a vacant Garfield Park building Tuesday night on the West Side.
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A firefighter was injured while battling a blaze that fully engulfed a vacant Garfield Park building Tuesday night on the West Side.
A lawsuit is expected to be filed today against the Roman Catholic Church – specifically, the Vatican – over a former priest who molested young boys on the city's West Side.
At least a dozen people were wounded in apparently unrelated shootings in a period of about 9 hours, on the city's South, Southwest and West sides.
A 1960s city football hero from Farrgaut High School and NFL record-holder was arrested Friday afternoon in the West Side's Lawndale neighborhood and charged with possessing heroin.
A CTA bus slammed into a light pole on the city's West Side this morning, sending the light pole crashing down to the street below.
A judge set bond at $250,000 for a woman charged with more than a dozen felonies in a drunken driving crash that left two people dead and nine others injured on the West Side over the weekend.
At least five people were killed and more than two dozen were wounded over the weekend in a rash of shootings that struck nearly every part of the city.
A West Side man is scheduled to appear in court Monday, after he was ordered held on a $1 million bond Saturday accused of raping a child, police said.
A woman was shot in the buttocks Sunday morning inside her Austin community home by a man during a domestic fight on the West Side.
One man is dead and another is injured, following a drive-by shooting overnight on the city's West Side, on the surface streets right above the Eisenhower Expressway.
A man was fatally shot Wednesday evening on the West Side.
A man was seriously injured in a shooting in the Humboldt Park neighborhood Wednesday afternoon on the West Side.
An off-duty Chicago Police officer shot and wounded a suspect after an armed robbery on the city's West Side this morning.
A man was shot and killed overnight while sitting in a restaurant on the city's West Side.
Two Central District police officers were able to stop a West Side woman from jumping in front of a CTA train early Easter Sunday in the Loop.
A man suffered multiple gunshot wounds Saturday morning while in a car on the Near West Side.
A homeless man was fatally struck by an SUV Friday night while trying to walk across the Eisenhower Expressway on the West Side apparently to get to the car he was living in, state police said.
Suspected carjackers made one miscalculation early Monday morning after allegedly taking a car from a man on the city's West Side.
Police say a deadly accident on the city's West Side started after a domestic dispute.
A Humboldt Park man is dead after allegedly igniting his home on fire then shooting himself late Saturday on the West Side.
A man who was fighting on the street was shot in the head and suffered a graze wound at a busy West Side intersection Friday night.
Two men were shot while traveling inside a Jeep on North Avenue Friday afternoon on the West Side.
A fire broke out this morning in a residential building on the city's West Side building.
A man who was found in Arkansas was charged with gunning down two women as they were dancing nearly nine years ago on the West Side, police said.
A firefighter was injured early this morning in a fire that broke out on the city's West Side.
Dozens of people officially became American citizens at a ceremony at Wrigley Field Wednesday.
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.
McDonald's said Wednesday it will spend $8.5 billion over the next decade to modernize its restaurants globally.
Don Cooper, a former longtime Chicago White Sox pitching coach and 2005 World Series champion, has died at the age of 70.
Brookfield Zoo Chicago is one of several zoos taking part in an ongoing effort to restore the population of a bird that went extinct in the wild in Guam.
Chicago U.S. Rep. Delia Ramirez announced she is introducing a new bill that proposes dismantling the Department of Homeland Security and abolishing ICE and redirecting their funding to more social services.
Sendhil Revuluri is running for Board of Education president because, in his words, "we need to put our students at the center of everything we're doing.
The Justice Department claimed that reporting from CNN, MS NOW and Politico raises national security concerns and accused their journalists of failing to act with "professionalism and decorum."
Chicago mayoral candidate Bill Quinlan has filed a lawsuit seeking to keep three rivals off the ballot, arguing they shouldn't be allowed to run for mayor while also running for re-election to their current positions.
The U.S., Denmark and Greenland signed a new security agreement bolstering the United States' military and security presence on the island.
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.
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.
Cardinal Blase Cupich and a group of Catholic nuns have joined a federal lawsuit challenging Illinois' Medical Aid in Dying law, which is set to take effect in just over a week.
Flies have been everywhere this summer in the Chicago area, and some of them bite. But why is this happening?
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.
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.
Nike-owned Converse acknowledged that an ad for its Chuck Taylor sneaker is "deeply upsetting."
Presley Gerber, the son of Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber, has died at 27, a family spokesperson has confirmed.
Duncan Sheik died on Thursday night, his family said.
Aaron Rowe, Beoga, Lukas Graham and Finneas all released statements Tuesday on Instagram saying they were withdrawing from Ed Sheeran's tour.
Boise police have identified a man known as the "Unknown Wanderer" who was found dead in a church in 1982 as Dr. Mathew Francis Betkouski, and revealed a possible link to the Chicago Tylenol murders.
The Ada County Sheriff's Office and Boise police revealed the identity of the "Unknown Wanderer" after 43 years Wednesday, and revealed what they think could be a link to the Chicago Tylenol murders in 1982.
Meteorologist David Yeomans has your 11 a.m. First Alert Weather forecast for Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026.
Evanston-Skokie School District 65 in Chicago’s north suburbs is poised to shut down two more schools amid a financial crisis. Lauren Victory reports.
Jackie Kostek jumpstarts your day with a first look inside Northwestern's new Ryan Field.
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.
Don Cooper, a former longtime Chicago White Sox pitching coach and 2005 World Series champion, has died at the age of 70.
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.
Dozens of people officially became American citizens at a ceremony at Wrigley Field Wednesday.
McDonald's said Wednesday it will spend $8.5 billion over the next decade to modernize its restaurants globally.
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.
They're not regular donuts, they're quantum donuts. That's the pitch from a business hoping to get more dough as a massive new quantum computing campus continues construction in South Chicago.
The village of Grayslake is touting a new massive data center, but neighbors say they weren't given an opportunity to make their voices heard before the project was approved.
A Cicero woman is suing Uber and a driver after the driver allegedly sexually assaulted her. She and her boyfriend said Uber hired him despite the driver having a criminal background.
Don Cooper, a former longtime Chicago White Sox pitching coach and 2005 World Series champion, has died at the age of 70.
The Cubs (87-70) could have clinched a playoff berth with a win or an Arizona loss, but the Diamondbacks won 7-2 at Colorado.
Gabriela Jaquez and Sydney Taylor scored 18 points apiece and Kamilla Cardoso added 17.
Brenton Doyle and Munetaka Murakami added home runs for the White Sox, who also helped their wild-card cause should they fail to catch Cleveland.
The Medinah County Club has been transformed into a massive international sporting venue as 24 pro golfers will compete in two teams.
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.
A third person stood charged Wednesday in an incident in which a man was shoved off a Chicago Transit Authority Red Line train and killed.
Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced movie mogul, was sentenced to 15 years in prison Wednesday morning for sexually assaulting Miriam Haley at his Manhattan apartment in 2006.
A driver has been charged with murder after police said he intentionally hit two pedestrians on Sunday in southwest suburban Yorkville, killing one of them.
