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BENSENVILLE, Ill. - Residents in unincorporated Bensenville say they are fed up with what they describe as a growing rat infestation taking over their neighborhood. Neighbors along Pine Grove Avenue say they have been dealing with rats since 2024 and believe the problem is getting worse as temperatures rise. Several re

Police were dispatched to Mugsy’s Tavern on Madison Street around 11:30 p.m. on May 8 for disorderly conduct. Upon arrival, the caller told police that she was inside the bar when someone said that a resident on the third floor of the building threw eggs down on the woman’s car. The woman said she didn’t know the perso

Pete’s Fresh Market’s new Oak Park store location has been in-the-works for the better part of a decade, but the store still doesn’t have an open date for customers months after it was promised. A grocery store planned for the lot at 640-728 Madison St. has been...

Though north suburban toy store Parkway Presents does not open until 9:30 a.m., customers started customers started grabbing a spot in line outside the store shortly after 5:00 a.m. on one recent Saturday. "When I got here at 8:30, I was bombarded by 200 people outside," Lisa Smith said, the...

Oak Park police arrested a man on felony charges in connection with a reported attack on three Oak Park police officers last week. Police arrested the 25-year-old Chicago man at 7:20 p.m. in the 900 block of North Boulevard last week. The man was charged with three counts of aggravated battery to a peace officer, disor

Gunfire broke out inside the Halftime Lounge in Midlothian on Monday night, leaving one person shot multiple times and two others speeding away from the scene, according to police. Officers were called to the 14600 block of South Waverly Avenue, where they found the wounded person inside the bar and...

Chicago police are investigating a shooting inside a South Side barber shop on Tuesday.

A neighborhood in the northwest suburbs of Chicago has been rocked by an unexpected home explosion that killed one person and left two others injured. Many people in the neighborhood were sitting at home when suddenly, the whole neighborhood was rocked by the blast. The explosion set the home on fire immediately, which

ABC7 Meteorologist Tracy Butler provided a health update to viewers.

A Chicago man accused of smoking a cannabis cigar on a CTA Red Line platform ended up under arrest and facing felony gun charges after officers allegedly found a loaded handgun in his waistband. But he wasn’t entirely unlucky: In court the next day, he appeared before the county’s most lenient pretrial detention judge,