A Carpentersville man has been found guilty of first-degree murder in connection with a 2023 drive-by shooting that left a 17-year-old dead.

Victor Willis, the frontman of the disco group Village People, has died at age 74. The band announced Willis’s death in a ...

CPD Superintendent Larry Snelling announced his retirement after less than three years in the role, during which murders in the city fell by 32% and shootings by 41%.

Three more nations punched their tickets to the Round of 16 of the World Cup on Tuesday. The Golden Boot race heated up ...

An investigation is underway after a man was killed and another was injured in an overnight shooting in River North.

Communities in the central and eastern United States are feeling the effects of a potentially-deadly, record-breaking heat wave Wednesday. The extreme heat will be all the more dangerous as it mixes ...

Texas Sen. John Cornyn says he’s frustrated with the delays in refunds for states as part of Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act.” ...

CHICAGO (WGN) – A man has been charged with murder after a mother of five was found shot to death in a South Side alley. The shooting happened at around 4:30 a.m. Sunday, Jan. 18 in the 6400 block of ...

For many kids who stutter, the message they’ve heard for years is to slow down in hopes the words sound more fluent. A camp in Chicago teaching the exact opposite. At Camp Dream. Speak. Live ...

A 26-year-old man was stabbed in West Ridge early Wednesday morning. Just after 1:20 a.m., police responded to the 6200 block ...

A prolonged stretch of dangerous heat and humidity continues through at least Thursday with afternoon heat indices between ...

Former child actor Daveigh Chase’s death on June 16 was due to AIDS, the office of the County of Los Angeles Medical Examiner ...