Chicago IL

Cook County’s manufacturing scene is buzzing this month, with solid openings for machinists, warehouse pros, and hands-on builders. Whether you’re after steady full-time work or flexible contract gigs, there’s something here for every skill level.

A Chicago man is heading to federal prison after orchestrating a massive $1.55M fraud scheme involving SNAP benefits.

CHICAGO - Funeral services have been scheduled for a Chicago firefighter who died after being injured while battling a fire earlier this week on the city’s Far North Side. Funeral arrangements for 32-year-old Michael Altman are as follows:. Visitation. Held from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m., Thursday, March 26...

Chicago is loud about pizza and hot dogs, but its Italian bakeries quietly do the real magic. In Illinois, these places run on early mornings, flour-dusted counters, and recipes that haven’t needed updating in decades. One bite of a crisp cannoli or a still-warm loaf can flip a bad...

HINSDALE, Ill. — A 24-year-old man with cognitive disabilities has been missing since Sunday and police are asking for help from anyone with information about where he may be. Bryan Vega was last seen Sunday around 10 a.m. near his home in the 5600 block of S. Washington in...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson championed passage of a “One Fair Wage” ordinance that eliminated a separate minimum wage for tipped workers, but the City Council froze that change Wednesday. The measure to freeze the city’s minimum wage for tipped workers at roughly three-quarters that of other workers passed...

Bryan Montana, principal at Chuhak & Tecson, P.C., recently attended an important community meeting held by the Glenview New Development Commission to discuss a series of changes that village staff had proposed to the Glenview Municipal Code. These changes would ban a number of service-based and retail businesses in...

CHICAGO — One of Grateful Dead legend Jerry Garcia’s favorite instruments was his trusty, custom-built, wood-grained guitar nicknamed “Tiger.”. Now “Tiger” could be coming back to Chicago after local guitar collector Bobby Tseitlin bought it at auction for $11.56 million, which was briefly a record for a guitar sale....

Earlier this month Streetsblog wrote about the March 3 case of an SUV driver fatally striking a woman on foot near Foster Avenue and Pulaski Road in the North Park neighborhood. While this was the first case I'd seen in news reports this year of a deadly crash involving a vulnerable road users on Chicago surface...

A person was taken into custody after a police chase on I-94 in the north suburbs for a hit-and-run of a police squad car in Bensenville, with no injuries reported.