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CHICAGO — The Office of the City Clerk is waiving vehicle sticker penalties for Chicago drivers for all of April. This means that from April 1-30 for “Amnesty Month,” Chicago drivers can purchase a city sticker for their motorbike, car or truck with no late fees or back charges. All Chicagoans who drive, park, lease...

CHICAGO — The doors are closing for good this week at two Chicagoland Kohl’s locations after the department store chain announced that it would be closing a handful of stores around the country earlier this year. In early January, Kohl’s Corp announced that it would be closing 27 locations in 15 states around the...

A wave of Kohl's stores are preparing to close for good this weekend as the company looks to shed underperforming locations. Kohl's closing locations follows the pattern of other similar department stores in the first quarter of 2025. Macy's shuttered as many as 65 underperforming stores to open the year....

CHICAGO - A man was found shot to death Wednesday morning near an elementary school on Chicago's South Side. The 33-year-old was found unresponsive, suffering from gunshot wounds near Frank Ira Bennett Elementary School in the 10100 block of South Prairie Avenue, according to police. He was pronounced dead at...

CHICAGO — Two teenage boys, aged 14 and 15, have been arrested and charged with the armed carjacking of a 61-year-old man in Chicago's South Shore neighborhood. The incident occurred on Sunday, March 23, in the 7900 block of South South Shore Drive.​

Springfield, IL – Scattered severe thunderstorms are expected to impact central Illinois on Thursday, bringing the risk of large hail and damaging winds throughout the evening and into the night. According to the National Weather Service Central Illinois, the storms may develop during the day Thursday, March 27,...

It's that time of year when each of us will start asking the eternal question of how early you can start mowing your grass. In Illinois, there are specific laws you need to know about or you could be mowing yourself into a law-breaking fine. The most popular conversation I...

If you have an up-to-date home mortgage in Illinois, you are slowly becoming the exception and not the rule. Alarming new data shows foreclosure rates in Illinois are skyrocketing with no signs of slowing anytime soon. There's a new study that's just been shared by 24/7 Wall St that shows...

CHICAGO — A road rage incident on a Chicago expressway ramp devolved into gunfire and a one-vehicle crash that caused the victim’s car to burst into flames, leaving him critically injured, prosecutors said. Jesus Javier, 32, allegedly bragged to co-workers about what happened, and another co-worker who was...

The report found she was working nearly the same, and sometimes more, hours for her second job. She’s fired.