Walmart slashes its best-selling outdoor fire pit from $170 to $70
While the afternoons in the Chicago and Great Lakes region are finally starting to feel like spring, anyone who has spent a night on a patio in Cook County knows that the temperature drops fast once the sun goes down. Now slashed from $170 to $70, the Uhomepro Outdoor Fire...
Lawsuit accuses shuttered hospital CEO of ‘financial mismanagement,’ ‘misappropriating’ state funds
A co-owner of operations for the closed Oak Park hospital West Suburban Medical Center has now filed a counter-lawsuit against his business partner.
Chicago man gets 20 years for pregnant 19-year-old’s murder
COOK COUNTY, Ill. — A Chicago man was convicted and sentenced to 20 years in prison for the murder of a 19-year-old pregnant woman who was initially listed as a Jane Doe. Robert Drummond was sentenced to 20 years following a guilty plea agreement. He was charged with the first-degree murder of Yarianna Wheeler, 19. […]
Ex-CFO embezzled $1M for luxury purchases, Chicago jury finds
The former CFO of a Pennsylvania company owned by a Chicago-area entity was convicted of eight counts of wire fraud after embezzling more than $1 million from the entity to purchase luxury items, according to a Monday press release from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Illinois.
Man killed, 3 women injured in Little Village shooting: CPD
Four people were shot, one of them killed, on Wednesday afternoon in the Little Village neighborhood.
Chicago alderman says police are ‘handcuffed’ from stopping teen takeovers under Mayor Brandon Johnson
A Chicago alderman claims police are handcuffed from stopping teen takeovers, blaming Mayor Brandon Johnson's policies for a lack of accountability.
16-year-old charged with murder had been arrested three times for guns, prosecutors say
A 16-year-old boy on probation for a gun case, with two more firearm arrests in his background, chased down and killed a Brighton Park man on a neighborhood street last autumn, prosecutors said Tuesday. Ayden Reynolds is charged as an adult with first-degree murder in the October 6, 2025, killing...
FBI: $50K Reward for Illinois Fugitive Nicknamed Troubles
The FBI in Illinois is offering a $50,000 reward for information that leads to the capture of a man wanted for the murder of a National Guardsman.
5 Oldest Pizza Places in Illinois—1 Isn’t in Chicago
Illinois has a rich history of legendary pizza places, but 5 are older than the rest and 1 isn't in Chicago.
Man suffers non-life-threatening injury Tuesday night in first Evanston shooting in almost a year
A man suffered a non-life-threatening gunshot wound Tuesday evening in what is believed to be Evanston’s first shooting in nearly a year. Evanston Police Commander Chelsea Brown said that police responded to a call of shots fired on the 700 block of Howard Street at 6:08 p.m. She added that “responding officers located an adult male victim in the area with...
