Gov. JB Pritzker accused Mayor Brandon Johnson of showing up "late in the game" Monday after Johnson’s renewed effort to stop ...

Meteorologist Mary Kay Kleist has your 7 a.m. First Alert Weather forecast for Sunday, May 17, 2026.

Al Capone ran a bootlegging empire during Prohibition, so it makes sense that this flavorful gin cocktail is associated with ...

Arnold Day was convicted and sentenced to 60 years in prison in 1992 based on confessions coerced by Chicago police detectives trained by Jon Burge, a disgraced Chicago police commander, according to ...

Rev. Michael Pfleger and former Chicago mayoral candidate Ja'Mal Green said they've lobbied Pritzker to free the onetime gang ...

New accounts from 17 men, women and children taken in a midnight raid paint a violent, terrifying portrait of the federal ...

In an effort to combat suicide trends, two community-led organizations in Chicago — No Kids Die in the Chi and Soul Survivors of Chicago — are working to intervene early and provide young people with ...

BRUSSELS, April 28 (Reuters) - Suspected members of the Nigerian-linked Black Axe crime gang have been arrested in Switzerland accused of ‌involvement in romance scams and cyberfraud, Europol said on ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... In March this year, trading standards officers in the West Midlands town of Dudley closed down a number of “rogue” businesses, mostly ...

There’s a Southern twang in the Black Chicago accent, even though many Black Chicagoans are generations removed from the South. I’m from the South Side of Chicago. And when I’m on the radio or on a ...

Trains captured Geoffrey Baer’s heart early on. Growing up in Highland Park, “we were one house away from what was back then the Chicago & North Western, now the Union Pacific North Line,” Baer ...

CHICAGO (WGN) – More than 120 Black-owned businesses lined the 75th Street corridor in the city’s Chatham neighborhood Saturday for the second annual Spend in the Black event. Shavon Francis, founder ...