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The Chicago Police Department has used gun buybacks to get thousands of firearms off the street, but at least two of them have resurfaced at crime scenes, a joint investigation between the Illinois Answers Project and the Chicago Sun-Times found.

AUSTIN — A team of women carpenters, plumbers and developers is leading the renovation of a women’s recovery home coming to Austin this summer. Pink Hats Construction & Development Group, Inc. is renovating a 16,000-square-foot recovery facility at 851 N. Leamington Ave. The 30-room building, expected to be complete...

It's been a wild week and we aren't done yet. The National Weather Service is predicting more severe storms. The National Weather Service issued a Hazardous Weather Outlook:. The Flood Watch continues. Persistent showers and thunderstorms with heavy rainfall will lead to worsening and expanding flash flooding...

Nashville, TN — A tornado watch has been issued for nearly five million people across portions of Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, and Tennessee, according to the National Weather Service. The watch is in effect until 10 PM CDT this evening. According to the NWS, the watch area includes...

It's that wonderful time of year in Illinois when mushroom hunting thrives. Unfortunately, the effort to find mushrooms turned into a chilling encounter for one Illinois man who heard trees snap and then he heard a blood-curdling scream. I came across this interesting encounter that was shared by YouTube channel...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) — An attorney for the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services was fired after a report from the Office of Executive Inspector General found that she was allegedly doing work for a bank on state time. The OEIG report said that Deborah Riley began working...

CHICAGO — An angry bar-goer slashed a Boystown nightclub employee after being denied entry early Friday morning, police said. The staff at Charlie’s Chicago, 3726 North Broadway, turned the man away because he did not have proper identification, according to CPD. He became aggressive with the staff, who removed him...

CHICAGO — A burglar went on an early-morning spree Wednesday, breaking into a string of businesses stretching from Old Town to Lakeview, according to CPD. As is usually the case with such crimes, restaurants were targeted. Police said the man forced his way into the businesses by breaking front...

Chicago readers report that George Freeman has left us. He may have been the last surviving person to have performed and recorded with Charlie Parker. George played with most other greats and recorded many albums, the last of which, in 2022, was titled The Good Life. Obit here.

CARL R. HANSEN WOODS — John McCabe watched as orange flames licked at patches of the prairie grass known as little bluestem on a recent Tuesday at Carl R. Hansen Woods. Twelve different crews were conducting prescribed burns at various locations across Cook County that Tuesday. The Forest Preserves of Cook County...