AI data centers driving up ComEd electricity prices, experts say
ComEd customers viewing their bill for this current billing cycle were hit with sticker shock, and it's not only the hot weather that's contributing.
Man shot, killed near train tracks on Chicago’s Far South Side
Police said the man, who had gunshot wounds, was pronounced dead.
Weiss Hospital in Uptown to lose access to Medicare funding, IDPH says
Chicago's Weiss Memorial Hospital will soon lose it's Medicare funding, which could lead to the hospital closing, following an investigation by the Illinois Department of Public Health.
Teen valedictorian gets $8M in scholarships, over 80 college acceptance letters
After graduating high school with acceptance letters to numerous colleges and millions of dollars in scholarships, Aaron Williams and his mother, Ericka Smith, had to sort through a mountain of college acceptance letters. The 18-year-old from Chicago, the youngest of seven children, received acceptance letters from...
Chicago’s crime decline is part of a national trend, researchers say
A new study shows Chicago’s crime decline is part of a national trend that’s driving murders, carjackings and sexual assaults below pre-pandemic levels. The report from the Council on Criminal Justice shows nationally, violent crime rates for the first half of 2025 were lower than in the first half of 2019. In...
K-9 sniffs out $1 million in cocaine in Chicago Ridge drug bust
A K-9 sniffed out seven figures worth of cocaine in a Chicago Ridge drug bust earlier this week, police said.
NASCAR is moving to another city after revealing it won’t return to Chicago in...
After three years of taking place in Chicago's Grant Park during the Fourth of July holiday weekend, NASCAR is moving to a new city. Both NASCAR officials and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson's office confirmed the race wouldn't return to the city in 2026, but on Wednesday, NASCAR announced where it was heading instead:...
Suspect arrested after arrest warrant operation in Elmhurst, Illinois
Elmhurst police said they assisted law enforcement agencies with conducting an arrest warrant operation at a home near the intersection.
Woman accused in road rage shooting along I-57 facing felony charges
POSEN, Ill. (WGN) — Felony charges have been filed against a Chicago woman accused in a road rage shooting along an expressway in the south suburbs in late April. According to Illinois State Police Troopers, 24-year-old Octavia Howleit, a Chicago resident, has been charged with one felony count of aggravated battery...
Three teens hit man with car, stole his SUV at gunpoint: police
A 15-year-old boy teamed up with two 14-year-olds to violently carjack a man in Edgewater last month, striking the victim with a car before stealing his SUV, Chicago police said. The younger boys were arrested earlier this month to face charges in the crime, which left the 39-year-old victim critically injured.
