Naperville IL

Four Illinois communities have been ranked among the top in a new report on the safest cities in America. U.S. News and World Report recently released its list of the 25 Safest Places to Live in the U.S. in 2025-2026, which were determined based on murder and property crime rates per 100,000 people, according to the...

PLAINFIELD, Ill. - Jack in the Box has returned to the Chicago area after a 40-year hiatus, opening its first new location earlier this week. Jack in the Box’s first Chicagoland restaurant opened Monday in Plainfield at 2101 Illinois Route 59. The fast-food chain left the region in the 1980s, but now plans several...

Chicago police are searching for suspects who physically attacked victims on the West Side while searching their pockets and stealing property. In one case, the suspects used a vehicle to hit victims who were riding bikes.

A teenager labeled a “habitual juvenile offender” by officials was on electronic monitoring when he carjacked a 62-year-old physically handicapped woman at gunpoint in front of her Chicago home last month, according to prosecutors. Kennedy Leach, 18, has been charged with aggravated vehicular hijacking of a...

It may be time for Yong Suk Lee to cash out his burglary career. The 36-year-old Palatine man is back behind bars after police say he walked out of a Little Village gas station with a crowbar in one hand and a slot machine cash box in the other—right into the arms of officers who had simply stopped by for a drink.

A teenager died from gunshot wounds after being dropped off at a Southwest Side hospital, police said.

CHICAGO (WLS) - A Chicago-area 18-year-old has a lot to be proud of. He graduated high school with acceptance letters to dozens of colleges and millions of dollars in scholarships. It’s a payoff for many years of hard work. Aaron Williams and his mother, Ericka Smith, have sifted through...

The downtown Chicago nightclub where four people were killed and 14 others injured in a mass shooting earlier this month is permanently shutting its doors—and Ald. Brendan Reilly (42nd) says he’s “relieved” by the decision. Artis Lounge, located at 311 West Chicago Avenue, hosted a record...

Community members lined both sides of the Washington Street Bridge in Naperville Thursday evening to take part in the “Good Trouble Lives On” John Lewis Day of Action. The rally was held to honor the late Congressman John Lewis, a civil rights activist who died on July 17, 2020.

KENDALL COUNTY, Ill. (TCN) -- A woman will spend three decades behind bars for killing her girlfriend nearly two years ago following an argument. According to a July 10 news release from the Kendall County State’s Attorney’s Office, Alexia Telles entered a plea agreement, and a judge sentenced her to 30 years in the...