Pritzker signs $1.5B plan to overhaul public transportation, avoid service cuts
New transit reform law is designed to improve public transportation services after Chicago area faced funding shortfall.
Chicago man charged after loaded gun found during traffic stop
CHICAGO - A Chicago man is facing felony charges after a loaded gun was allegedly found in his vehicle during a Sunday traffic stop in the Chatham neighborhood. According to the Cook County Sheriff's Office, investigators stopped a gray Nissan around 5:22 p.m. in the 8800 block of South Wabash Avenue for suspended...
Son Accused of Beating Father to Death With Sledgehammer
Schaumburg, Ill., December 15, 2025: A 28-year-old Schaumburg man has been charged with first-degree murder in the killing of his father, who was found beaten to death inside the family home over the Thanksgiving weekend, authorities said. Abhijit Patel is accused of killing his father, Anupam Patel, 67, with a...
Man charged in shooting that left woman dead at home in McHenry Co.
Silvano Perri, 75, from Itasca, Illinois, was charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of a woman at a home near Harvard, Illinois.
Illinois bishop expected to replace Cardinal Dolan as head of NY Archdiocese: sources
A bishop from Illinois is expected to replace Cardinal Timothy Dolan as archbishop of New York, sources told 1010 WINS on Wednesday.
Cop killer gets life in prison — but Illinois ‘criminal justice reform’ makes him...
A Cook County judge on Tuesday sentenced the man who murdered on-duty Chicago Police Officer Andrés Vásquez Lasso to life in prison, but a law passed in 2023 will allow him to seek release after serving 40 years because he was under 21 when he committed the crime.
She’s fired! Markham chief terminates cop who found gun in convicted murderer’s car
The Markham cop who found a gun in the center console of a convicted murderer’s car, only to be ordered by the department’s chief to let the man go, has been fired. Markham Police Chief Jack Genius terminated Probationary Police Officer Kayla M. Heller on December 8, the same day CWBChicago informed Genius that the...
Driver goes into cardiac arrest, crashes on I-94 in north suburbs, officials say
A driver crashed after going into cardiac arrest on Wednesday morning on the Edens Expressway, officials said.
Pastors unite to demand property tax relief for South and West Side residents
A coalition of African American pastors in Cook County, Illinois, are urging lawmakers to roll back property taxes and implement property tax caps to prevent homeowners from being priced out of their homes due to skyrocketing property taxes.
Pritzker signs medical aid in dying bill after Oak Park activism
Illinois will soon allow terminally ill adults to seek prescriptions for life-ending medicine. Gov. JB Pritzker signed a Senate Bill 1950, also known as Deb’s law, Friday making Illinois the eleventh state to allow terminally ill patients to end their lives with physician-prescribed medicine. A group of active Oak...
