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 ...

“It’s Halloween, and somebody is going to die tonight.” Those were the chilling words of a Chicago gang member who made good on his threat by firing a hail of bullets into a car on Halloween night in ...

A heartless Long Island gang leader was sentenced to life without parole Tuesday for ordering the kidnapping and murder of an motorist who fell asleep in front of her house. Kayla Alvarenga, 23, was ...

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 ...

Matt DeCaro, a Chicago actor whose career spanned decades and included a performance in the Goodman Theatre's currently-running production “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom," has died. The Goodman Theatre ...

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 ...