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A fire ripped through two houses early Sunday morning in Chicago's Morgan Park neighborhood.

Portillo's, a longtime fixture for Chicago-style food, is establishing a presence on one of the city's most iconic streets - but not in its usual form. The suburban Oak Brook-based chain is opening a new location at 304 N. Michigan Ave., near the intersection of East Wacker Place, according to a recent announcement. Si

For most high school seniors, graduation day is a moment years in the making. It’s the grand finale to countless assignments, tests, extracurricular activities, and early mornings. One Illinois graduate may have made her moment a little too memorable. An 18-year-old Chicago Tech Academy graduate is making headlines aft

The Chicago area likely won’t see severe weather Sunday, but localized flooding could occur thanks to slow-moving thunderstorms. The National Weather Service sent out guidance Sunday called for an “elevated risk” of thunderstorms across the area, and while gusty winds cannot be ruled out the main threats of the storms

A judge rejected the state’s case and ordered his release Wednesday. His defense attorney argued the complaining witness engineered his arrest. Chairman Fred Hampton Jr., son of the slain legendary Black Panther revolutionary, walked out of Cook County Jail on Wednesday after a judge ruled the Cook County State’s Attor

A woman was shot and critically injured outside of a North Side bar early Sunday morning, Chicago police said.

More than two years after a judge found him guilty of participating in an armed robbery that left a man dead outside a suburban movie theater in 2017, Torrey Lewis has been sentenced to 85 years in prison. While CWB Chicago did not report on the original murder case, Lewis...

Separate shootings on Chicago's South Side left several young people, including a boy as young as 12 years old, injured during a violent night.

Federal immigration officials say a 40-year-old man with a long criminal record slipped through the fingers of Chicago police and back onto city streets, even though there was a federal arrest warrant waiting for him. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement identified the man as Luis Manuel Saucedo‑Cardenas and said h

ALMA, Wis. (WKBT) -- A Chicago motorcyclist died after hitting a deer Saturday afternoon, according to a release.