Chicago IL

WAUSAU — A Chicago man was convicted this week in Marathon County in a scam that stripped an elderly woman of more than $135,000 in savings, court records show. Tao Wu, 37, appeared March 24 in Marathon County Circuit Court before Judge Mike Moran after being convicted of conspiracy to commit theft of movable...

From the high-traffic corridors of Chicago to the suburban hubs of Aurora and Skokie, here are the five major retail chains closing doors in Illinois this month. Following a bankruptcy filing and a failed auction process earlier this year, the operator of Eddie Bauer’s physical stores is liquidating its entire North...

In 2017, Lyle Zimbler was a hobbyist woodworker when his wife’s response to a Facebook post on Oak Park Working Moms provided an outlet to a new career. A woman posted looking for recommendations for table refinishing, and Betsy Zimbler recommended her husband. After landing his first paying job...

West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park announced this week it will be closing temporarily and putting most of its workers on leave due to a medical billing issue.

A Chicago police officer who also worked as a high school security guard is now on leave and was relived of police powers, school and CPD officials confirmed.

If you think you know what rye bread tastes like, Ann’s Bakery & Deli in Chicago is about to prove you wrong. This unassuming neighborhood bakery produces rye bread so authentic and delicious that it’ll ruin you for the grocery store stuff forever. Let’s start with a confession....

Months after unveiling plans for a new Jewish high school in downtown Chicago, the project’s founders have found their inaugural head of school and secured a still-under-construction building ahead of its first class, slated for fall 2027. The Davis School this week announced the appointment of Richard H. Cuenca,...

Both suspects have been identified as leaders of a group dedicated to the "commandeering of properties" and are being accused of aggravated extortion, unlawful dispossession and criminal association.

A 14-year-old Chicago Heights boy, Chance Anderson-Barnes, has been missing since March 8 after leaving home with only the clothes he was wearing. Family believes he may have been influenced to leave by siblings he recently connected with on Facebook; he was last seen near 70th Street and Jeffery Boulevard in Chicago.

Chicago’s Spring Break exploded into bedlam as a teen mob estimated at roughly 400 surged through city streets on Wednesday, prompting police to impose an emergency curfew. Officers reported multiple fights, and witnesses said some teenagers carried tasers and bear mace, escalating the mayhem.