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Just north of Chicago, in Wilmette, Illinois, stands the Bahá’í House of Worship, widely recognized as the oldest surviving Bahá’í temple in the world. Completed in 1953, it holds a special place in Bahá’í history as the first temple built in the Western Hemisphere. Its location along Lake Michigan places it just...

ZION, Ill. - A family is suing a suburban Chicago high school after a classroom stabbing that left a 17-year-old girl seriously wounded. The complaint was filed Thursday by attorneys on behalf of Karen Tamez and her daughter. It names Zion-Benton Township High School District 126, the student accused of the attack,...

Chicago’s Douglas neighborhood was flooded with police late Wednesday after an apparent shooting near 35th Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. Aerial footage showed dozens of squad cars and multiple ambulances crowding the intersection, with shattered glass visible outside a Dunkin’ Donuts storefront. As crews...

CHICAGO — Cook County prosecutors on Wednesday dropped charges against 19 protesters who were arrested outside of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in suburban Broadview in the fall. They were the latest Broadview protest cases dismissed in recent weeks. In early February, prosecutors with the Cook...

CHICAGO - A 16-year-old and a 17-year-old were arrested hours after allegedly taking a man’s vehicle at gunpoint on Chicago’s West Side. Police said the teens were taken into custody around 10:20 a.m. on March 26 in the 300 block of West Garfield Boulevard in the Fuller Park neighborhood.

Chicago, Milwaukee and several other Midwest metros are in the path of a dangerous severe weather threat that covers more than 45 million people across the region — with storms expected to begin firing over eastern Iowa by late Thursday morning before charging east.

A high-speed chase from Indiana to Illinois had everyone on the edge of their seats, ending with some serious consequences for two fugitives.

For a city and country with a profound love of beef and melted cheese on a bun, the burger represents far more than salty sustenance. It is a beautiful, indulgent, messy, no doubt nostalgic moment in time. Thus, I should have anticipated my editor at WBEZ/Chicago Sun-Times asking me to...

In honor of Women's History Month, ABC7 Chicago is spotlighting the female leaders of our newsroom.

A rush-hour run up the Bishop Ford ended in what prosecutors called an expressway ambush, and now the shooter is headed to prison. Calvin Woods, 32, of Matteson, pleaded guilty on April 1 to second-degree murder for a 2023 shooting on northbound I-94 near Dolton Road that left 30-year-old Travon Mackie dead. Cook...