Chicago IL

BEVERLY — Two years after three speed cameras were moved in the 19th Ward, local officials are considering relocating another one. The 19th Ward — which includes Beverly, Morgan Park and Mount Greenwood — is home to four speed cameras: 10540 S. Western Ave., 1732 W. 99th St., 2700 W. 103rd St. and 3843 W. 111th St.

Designed to help people with serious mental illness, Joliet Treatment Center repeatedly failed to prevent or respond to fires, despite two deaths. This article was first published by The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system, WBEZ and Chicago Sun-Times. Sign up for th

A contractor in Downers Grove, Illinois was found dead Tuesday after he had gone missing in a storm sewer during severe weather. ​COPYRIGHT 2026 BY APPLE VALLEY NEWS NOW. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. THIS MATERIAL MAY NOT BE PUBLISHED, BROADCAST, REWRITTEN OR REDISTRIBUTED.

Monday's storms brought four confirmed tornadoes to the Chicago suburbs, rated EF0 and EF1, with winds strong enough to down trees and knock out power across three counties.

A 13-year-old boy was among two people shot and injured Wednesday inside of an apartment building on the city's South Side, Chicago police said.

A Chicago man who prosecutors said was under the influence of PCP when he ran a red light, slammed into another vehicle, and then plowed into a CTA bus stop, leaving two people with catastrophic injuries, has been sentenced to four years in prison, court records show. Michael Zoumah, 32,...

Two contractors working on a pipe rehabilitation project in a Chicago suburb became trapped in a storm sewer after severe weather swept through the region Monday, July 27.

A federal judge has allowed a major civil rights lawsuit challenging Chicago Police Department traffic stop practices to move forward on behalf of thousands of Black and Latino drivers, marking the latest chapter in a legal battle over how and why the department conducts street and vehicle stops. In a...

MILWAUKEE, Wis. (WISN/WBAY) - Cell phone records for the woman who claimed immigration officials held her in custody illegally in Illinois and Wisconsin prove she, her sister and a politician family friend conspired to fabricate the claims and defame Dodge County Sheriff Dale Schmidt, a newly filed court document alleg

Chicago’s South and Southwest sides saw a grim run of violence from Tuesday evening into early Wednesday, with 11 people shot, two fatally, and another person seriously injured in a stabbing. The incidents unfolded across several neighborhoods, and police said they were separate cases rather than one connected attack.