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A man was in custody after police said he pushed a woman into the koi pond at Westfield Old Orchard shopping center and held her head underwater on Tuesday morning.

The FBI’s nationwide Operation Summer Heat 2.0 resulted in more than 8,900 arrests, 5,000 firearms seized and hundreds of children recovered, including eight in the Chicago area. In Chicago, agents arrested 88 suspected violent offenders, recovered 47 firearms and made 40 major narcotics seizures while targeting gangs, child predators...

Governor JB Pritzker and his Republican opponent, former State Senator Darren Bailey, square off Tuesday night in their only televised appearance of the fall campaign. The two will meet on Chicago public television station WTTW in what is being branded as a “forum” instead of a traditional debate.

Three men confronted an employee opening the Verizon store at 511 E. Lincoln Highway in New Lenox before 10:30 a.m. Saturday, with two of them displaying guns and demanding cell phones while a driver waited outside in a getaway vehicle. By the time investigators were done, police had recovered 74 stolen phones, two stolen vehicles, five firearms — including one altered to fire fully automatically — and five suspects were in custody.

LINCOLN PARK — When Caroline Novak first approached the man with a satchel stuffed with exotic and expensive nuts, she did so politely, curious about why squirrels in Lincoln Park deserved such fancy food. At this point, about a month ago now, Novak and other neighbors had seen the...

Chicago, Rockford, Springfield and Peoria break daily temperature records during unusual October heat.

Abbygail Somoza, 22, was fatally shot Saturday night while standing with her mother on a sidewalk outside the Little Village home where she once lived.

DUPAGE COUNTY, Ill. - A Chicago woman charged in connection with a deadly shooting outside Oakbrook Center is expected to appear in court Tuesday morning. Chance Jamerson, 29, faces three felony counts of attempted armed robbery, according to the DuPage County State’s Attorney’s Office and the Oak Brook Police Department.

Body-camera footage captures a woman arguing with Illinois police over a disputed restaurant bill, offering to pay $150 of the $195.78 the restaurant demanded before officers arrest her. The footage, recently obtained and published by ... Read more

Paige McCulloch-Burton had long been interested in driving a bus. Her grandfather worked as a CTA bus operator, and after earning her commercial driver’s license, she followed in his footsteps in February 2025. “It was a very great experience,” she recalled. “I really enjoyed a lot of my customers,...