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CHICAGO, Ill. — The entire area from Cedar Rapids and Dubuque through Madison, Milwaukee, Rockford, and Chicago remains under a Level 3 of 5 Enhanced Risk for severe weather this afternoon and tonight. Forecasters are describing this as a very complicated setup with three distinct potential outcomes — ranging from isolated supercells with tornadoes to a widespread damaging wind event, or both scenarios occurring simultaneously. The...

CHICAGO - Some in Hyde Park are concerned about teen takeovers happening Tuesday night. Fox Chicago obtained a social media post that talked about a teen takeover event that would happen starting at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday but it did not give an end time. It also had the words "BYOB" with a champagne bottle emoji and "BYOW" with a leaf emoji.

A driver was killed in a shooting and crash on Chicago's South Side on Tuesday evening, police said.

A woman and a man were found shot to death inside a West Side home Tuesday evening.

Millions of Americans were told to remain on alert Tuesday night as destructive storms and isolated tornadoes were possible.

DUPAGE COUNTY, Ill. - A previously convicted suburban Chicago man will spend two decades in prison after prosecutors say he fired a handgun converted to a fully automatic weapon during a drug deal in 2023. Curtis Lyons, 41, of Maywood, was sentenced Monday after a judge found him guilty in...

Brookfield police on April 2 arrested a 34-year-old Brookfield man for domestic battery. Around 9:15 p.m., officers responded to the 4300 block of Maple Avenue for a report that someone had knocked someone else out inside a residence. Police made contact with the caller, who said a man had struck them in the face; officers observeda bruise there. Someone else said...

The band Chicago will be performing at the Washington State Fair this September.

OAK FOREST, Ill. - Two Chicago men have been charged with murder in connection with a drive-by shooting over the weekend in southwest suburban Oak Forest. Edward Bass, 32, and Khalil Powell, 30, are accused in the Saturday killing of Latrell Williams, a 30-year-old from Alsip. The backstory:. The shooting...

State wildlife agents say a visit from a Chicago man to rural Evangeline Parish ended with an endangered whooping crane shot dead on a crawfish farm and the suspect in handcuffs. Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries biologists tracked the signal from the bird’s collar to the farm in mid-March and found the crane dead with shotgun wounds. According to the agency, the...