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CHICAGO - A mass shooting on Chicago’s West Side early Sunday morning left six people, mostly teenagers, injured. Officers responded to the scene in the 3800 block of W. Maypole Avenue in West Garfield Park around 1:34 a.m., according to the Chicago Police Department. Several people were standing outside...

We're fortunate to be able to see bison roam wild these days, since they once numbered in the tens of millions but were cut down to mere hundreds. Now, there are around 10,000 bison on public lands and another 200,000 in private herds in the U.S., thanks to the initial preservation efforts of the American Bison Society

Heavy rains and flash flooding have caused an interstate highway to shutter for a portion of the Fourth of July weekend. According to Illinois State Police, the Bishop Ford Freeway remains closed in both directions after several inches of rain fell in a short period of time on Saturday afternoon.

CHICAGO (Gray News) - A Delta flight was reportedly hit by a firework while landing in Chicago on the Fourth of July. Delta Air Lines Flight 1076 landed Saturday at Chicago’s Midway International Airport just before 8:40 p.m. Central, according to FlightAware. Air traffic control audio obtained by CNN...

Police early Sunday were investigating a slashing that left a man wounded on a Chicago Transit Authority bus.

A flash flood warning was issued for several Chicago-area counties on Saturday evening, with the National Weather Service warning of significant flooding caused by earlier storms that delivered up to six inches of rain in parts of the region. Earlier, the NWS issued an urgent flash flood warning for portions...

Forest Park, Illinois – When animal rescuers double‑checked Blue's microchip, they could hardly believe what they found. The poor little stray cat had been through so much! Blue was rescued at the end of May by the organization April’s Kittens, which is based in Forest Park, Illinois. The poor little animal had been fo

The tree ended up through the windshield, just centimeters from the passenger's face.

Maurice Lowry made headlines in 2021 for supposedly “busjacking” a CTA bus, then received a one-year gun possession sentence. Now he’s pleaded guilty to robbing a man on the Red Line. But, thanks to the state’s 50% sentence reduction law and credits earned in jail, he won’t have to worry about living in an actual priso

CHICAGO - Chicago police are asking for the public's help identifying a person of interest in connection with a double homicide that also left two other people wounded last week in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood. What we know:. According to a community alert issued by the Chicago Police Department,...