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LINCOLN PARK — More than 80 vehicles were towed from a half-mile stretch of Stockton Drive before this year’s Chicago Pride Parade after the street was temporarily designated as a float dispersal route, but several Lincoln Park residents say they never saw the parking restrictions that led to their cars being hauled aw

Cook County still has 77,552 property tax refund cases stalled by defects in its new iasWorld system, blocking bulk payouts.

A major area on the roads near O'Hare Airport in Chicago will soon be relocated. Officials announced that closures would be in place Monday night into Tuesday on ramps connecting I-294 and I-90 to I-190. The closures come as crews work to "relocate the toll plaza at the O'Hare Interchange."

On September 29, 1982, 12-year-old Mary Kellerman of Chicago died after taking Extra-Strength Tylenol laced with cyanide — and six other victims soon followed.

‘The Point’ airs on WGN and streams on WGN+ each weeknight at 6:45 p.m. CT.

A Berwyn smoke shop owner and an employee are facing drug charges after investigators said the business illegally sold cannabis and psilocybin mushrooms. Authorities recovered about 36 kilograms of cannabis products while executing a search warrant at the store. Both defendants were released from custody after their in

Schools in suburban Cook County ranked among the highest in the state for racial and ethnic disparities in suspensions and expulsions, according to a recent report from the Cook County Department of Public Health. The department’s 2026 Restorative Practices report analyzed statewide data and gathered expertise from you

An NBC Chicago photographer spotted a coyote wandering along Michigan Avenue near Millennium Park in broad daylight - and it's not the first time one has been seen downtown during the day. Coyote sightings are common across the Chicago area, even downtown. But in the middle of the day? Not...

THORNTON, Ill. — All that rain from this past weekend had to go somewhere — and that somewhere is the Thornton Quarry. The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago reported Monday the Thornton Composite Reservoir was at 94% full, with 7.3 billion gallons. That’s the fullest the...

In recent months a series of incidents involving firearms has unsettled families living in a historic industrial area of Chicago. The situation highlights how efforts to reduce crime must contend with deep rooted social and economic factors that have persisted for generations. Chicago Back of the Yards Gun Violence rem