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Illinois has no shortage of wild moments on public transit, but this one might top the list. A video circulating online has social media buzzing over an eyebrow-raising scene that unfolded aboard a Chicago Transit Authority train, involving open flame, food, and just another level of nonchalance. According to footage..

A flash flood threat is moving across the country this weekend, starting in the Upper Midwest Today before reaching Chicago on Saturday and finally hitting New York City by Sunday night. Forecasters have placed a level 2 out of 4 flash flood threat over South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Illinois on Friday, coverin

A social media showing a crew taking sledgehammers to a brand-new wooden fence went viral this week, and now we're learning more about what happened to cause the destruction. Originally, the homeowner was accused of calling ICE on the Hispanic workers who had installed the fence, and that accusation accompanied the vid

A commercial vehicle hit a bridge on the Edens Expressway Thursday evening in the north suburbs, hospitalized at least two people and shutting down all southbound lanes and two northbound lanes, Illinois State Police said.

A 54-year-old man died a day after he was injured while riding an e-bike in a two-vehicle hit-and-run crash in Chicago's Garfield Ridge neighborhood, authorities said. Juan Martin Marquez Luna of Chicago died from the injuries he sustained in the crash around noon on Tuesday, according to the Cook County Medical Examin

CINCINNATI (WXIX) - A suspect in a 2023 Cheviot murder was captured nearly 300 miles away in a town not far from Chicago. Tamika Steele was arrested Sept. 10 in Joliet, Illinois, in connection with the November 2023 murder of 44-year-old Damien Canady, according to the Cheviot Police Department. On...

Cook County Crime Stoppers, a non-profit organization that offers monetary rewards to help police solve violent crimes, said they are running out of money and might be forced to close at the end of the year.

A man was critically injured in a shooting in the West Chesterfield neighborhood Friday morning, Chicago police said.

Nearly 50 people gathered outside of Gov. JB Pritzker’s downtown Chicago office Thursday and alleged that Illinois is not upholding its constitution. Thursday marked Constitution Day, commemorating the Sept. 17, 1787, signing of the U.S. Constitution. At issue in Illinois is Article 1, Section 11, which states one obje

The best donut in Illinois is an apple fritter that weighs roughly a pound, comes out about as wide as your face, and is made entirely from the dough scraps left over after everything else has been cut. Most bakeries throw those away. On Chicago’s far South Side, one man turned them into the state’s […]