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DUPAGE COUNTY, Ill. - A Chicago man accused of robbing a U.S. Postal Service mail carrier at gunpoint as part of a scheme to steal and sell checks was ordered held without pretrial release Friday in DuPage County. What we know:. Antwan Kelsor, 22, appeared in court Friday morning on...

When I travel with my family, we always try to eat local and get a feel for the city or town we're visiting. But apparently, when we visit Chicago, there's only one place we should go for the city's famous deep-dish pizza. Cult Favorite for Deep Dish Pizza in Illinois.

Chicago is cleaning up Friday after powerful thunderstorms tore through the city Thursday evening, bringing down hundreds of trees, leaving some without power, and even delaying the most highly anticipated concert event of the year. The Department of Streets and Sanitation said it had received more than 700 tree...

Lollapalooza is already making noise in 2025, ranking as the third most talked-about music festival in the world with more than 1.3 million monthly searches — and it hasn’t even taken over Grant Park yet.

One of three men accused of participating in an expressway shooting on Thanksgiving night in 2023 received a 6-year sentence on Thursday. Rishaud Rhodes, 20, who faced multiple attempted murder charges, pleaded guilty to a less serious count of aggravated discharge of a firearm toward an occupied vehicle. Judge...

Not long ago, when busloads of migrants were arriving in Chicago from Texas, Mayor Brandon Johnson denounced the move as “evil.” Fast forward to 2025, and Johnson is now touting population growth as a sign of his administration’s success — growth made possible by the very migrant arrivals he once condemned. It can’t...

AVONDALE — A bustling thoroughfare that connects much of the Northwest Side has inspired a new literary magazine that aims to highlight the street’s stories and diversity. Milwaukee Avenue, known as a popular business and arts district, the city’s main bike highway, a state-designated immigrant heritage corridor and...

Chicago cops chased down and arrested four suspects after a man was robbed at gunpoint on the Granville Red Line platform last night. CPD said the victim, 27, was waiting for a train when a group of robbers approached him around 11:51 p.m. Someone in the group displayed a gun and demanded his valuables. He complied.

There’s no rule book for carjackers. But, if there were, “Don’t crash into a squad car occupied by an anti-carjacking task force” would undoubtedly be an essential chapter. Perhaps Marshun Fort and Kayne Hunt can start scratching out a draft of that chapter while they await...

DOLTON, Ill. (WGN) — A piece of Papal history is up for sale in Chicago’s south suburbs, where Pope Leo XIV’s childhood home has just hit the auction block. The home, which is being described by the seller as a “Piece of Papal History,” is located at 212 East 141st Place in Dolton. “It’s the childhood […]