Chicago IL

While more than 50 Fourth of July fireworks shows are scheduled to take place this week across the Chicago suburbs, the fireworks display previously dubbed Illinois' largest won't go on for 2025 due to "unique challenges." The announcement about Itasca's Fourth of July fireworks cancelation was made in March of...

CHICAGO - Two boys were charged in connection with a carjacking and robbery Saturday in the Austin neighborhood on Chicago's West Side. The boys, 12 and 13, allegedly stole a vehicle and property by force from a 27-year-old man and a 24-year-old woman in the 1600 block of North Long Avenue.

Three people were injured after shots were fired into Junior's Bar & Grille in Berwyn overnight Saturday.

A South Loop man faces multiple narcotics charges, including manufacture-delivery of heroin, after Chicago police allegedly found various packaged narcotics in his vehicle barely two weeks after a jury held him liable for a woman’s drug-related death. Around 9 p.m. on June 24, officers patrolling in Portage Park saw...

CHICAGO - Late last year, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson pointed out that in 2025, the city could see the lowest level of violent crime in years. In a talk with the City Club of Chicago, Johnson said it was possible that the city could record fewer than 500 homicides this year, a mark not seen since before the spike...

With mob hits, booze smuggling, and violent turf wars, the Windy City of the 1920s and '30s was a chaotic and dangerous place. The 1920s transformed Chicago into one of America’s most notorious ganglands, where organized crime thrived during the Prohibition era and corruption ran so deep it reached the highest levels...

(The Center Square) – Measures impacting higher education, hunting, driving enforcement and more are now law after Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed 15 bills Monday. Among the measures he signed Monday were four impacting access to and the cost of colleges in Illinois. “These bills streamline the application...

A man was killed in a stabbing Sunday evening at Navy Pier, Chicago police said. The suspect was seriously wounded in the fight.

CHICAGO — A group of five individuals is being sought by police following a violent armed robbery aboard a CTA Red Line train that left a woman assaulted and shaken. The incident occurred around 1:40 a.m. on June 21 as the train approached the 69th Street station on Chicago’s South Side.

Police arrested 39 people in connection with the Chicago Pride Parade and its aftermath between Sunday evening and early Monday, including five individuals who were illegally carrying firearms, according to the Chicago Police Department. One man charged with weapon possession was allegedly carrying two guns. This...