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CHICAGO - A 30-year-old man is facing a felony charge after a loaded, stolen gun was reportedly found inside his vehicle during a traffic stop Sunday in Chicago’s South Loop. What we know:. The stop happened around 5:12 p.m. near Roosevelt Road and State Street, according to the Cook...

One of the Loop’s most recognizable office towers is quietly up for grabs, and it might not stay an office for long. Manulife has put its 40-story Helmut Jahn-designed high-rise at 55 West Monroe on the market, hiring JLL to hunt for a buyer and pitching the building as either a straight office lease-up play or a...

The police chiefs from Hickory Hills and Palos Hills agree that technology has been an asset in solving crimes. However, the two police officials also want to point out that there is another factor in making communities safer. It is the public that makes the communities safer, they said. Hickory...

Three months after missing person Dan Davis was last seen, his family has expanded the search nationwide in hopes of bringing him home. Davis, 59, was last seen on November 26, 2025, on Bourbon Street in the Chicago suburb of Blue Island, Illinois, where he has worked for the past 25 years. Family members said […]

A man has been charged with shooting and killing two men following a jewelry store robbery last November in the Little Village neighborhood on the Southwest Side of Chicago.

A semi-trailer crashed into the bottom of an overpass on I-55 in southwest suburban Hodgkins early Thursday morning, scattering debris and closing lanes to traffic.

CHICAGO - A second round of layoffs hit WGN-Ch. 9 this week, with three creative services employees getting the axe Wednesday, including Debbie Brockman, the producer whose aggressive detainment by immigration agents in October became a symbol of urban enforcement clashes. Brockman, a 15-year employee at WGN, rose to...

MILWAUKEE, Wis. (WFRV) – Officials say a federal grand jury in Milwaukee convicted two Chicago adults of running illegal multimillion-dollar pyramid schemes in several states. 38-year-old Candice Cunningham and 53-year-old Joseph Johnson Jr., both from Chicago, ran illegal pyramid schemes in at least four states,...

One Chicago High School canceled classes earlier this week after a teacher had a medical emergency during school and later died. WGN’s Sylvia Snowden reports: Hansberry Prep High School teacher Michael Patterson collapsed in class on Monday and died shortly after at an area hospital. A letter home to families from...