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Six middle school students were taken to a local hospital after appearing to eat THC gummies Wednesday, a north suburban school district said.

A former Lake Forest homeowner with a federal fraud record is back in custody in Chicago, accused of running a global stock-backed lending scheme that prosecutors say bled a billionaire of more than $450 million. Federal agents arrested the man this week, and he is being held in a downtown federal lockup while a judge decides whether to send him to New York...

CHICAGO - A California man has been sentenced to two and a half years in federal prison after allegedly swaddling $2 million from a Chicago suburb resident. Raymond Echavez Villamor, 62, of Newport Beach, Calif., pleaded guilty last year to federal wire fraud. The backstory:. According to the U.S. Attorney's...

More than two dozen Chicago area hospitals earned "A" grades in hospital watchdog group Leapfrog's latest Hospital Safety Grade report spring 2026, with one earning a "F" grade and others moving up in the rankings. The biannual safety report, released Wednesday, assigns grades to most general hospitals in the U.S....

Billionaire Ken Griffin's clash with NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani over wealth taxes mirrors the tensions that preceded Citadel's break with Chicago.

At The Choo Choo in Des Plaines, your cheeseburger commutes to your table on a model train, and you might be eating it while sitting in a vintage airplane. This is either the best idea anyone’s ever had or someone’s beautiful fever dream made real. Here’s a question...

A Chicago man was arrested after allegedly stealing expensive watches from a kiosk at Orland Square Mall. Kaiden Bearden Nunes, 18, of the 8200 block of Wolcott Avenue, Chicago, was charged with theft after police said he grabbed two silver watches from the Exclusive Jewelry kiosk and ran through the mall before he was apprehended by police.

Palos Hills police made several arrests and are investigating a pair of thefts that occurred in late April and early May, according to department reports. A man was arrested Aug. 28 on an outstanding warrant stemming from an incident in the 10300 block of Roberts Road, police said. Erika E....

CHICAGO — A man is dead, and an investigation is underway following a drive-by shooting on the city’s Southwest Side on Tuesday night. Chicago police said the shooting unfolded just after 8:30 p.m. in the 1400 block of West 71st Street, in West Englewood. According to police, the victim, a 47-year-old man, was standing outside […]

A man died after he was pulled from Lake Michigan near Chicago's 49th Street Beach on Tuesday evening, authorities said. Around 7:30 p.m., an unidentified man fell into the water on the 4900 block of South DuSable Lake Shore Drive near Chicago's East Hyde Park neighborhood, authorities said. The man...