LIBERTYVILLE, Ill. ( WGN) — A suburban woman died after entering the Des Plaines River on Sunday to help rescue her son from the water. In an update Monday, the Lake County Coroner’s Office identified ...

Three people, including an 11-year-old boy, were wounded in a shooting on Chicago’s South Side Monday afternoon. The shooting happened around 4:30 p.m. in the 1900 block of West ...

From there, Corbett says decisions can be made to funnel additional money to organizations and programs that are successful.

CHICAGO ( WGN) — 16 teenagers are facing trespassing charges after police said they were caught inside the shuttered Congress Theatre in Logan Square on Friday. Police responded to the theatre, ...

CHICAGO (WGN) — For Chicago’s Christmas in the Wards, giving back is year-round. Last Friday, at Olive-Harvey College, on the city’s South Side, the organization’s ‘reason for the season’ was gifting ...

Thousands were without power Monday after Tropical Storm Lala uprooted trees from downtown Honolulu to the Big Island, where intense flash-flooding isolated already-remote ...

A hidden ingredient in your favorite fragrance may cause health problems. Dr. Brian Helfand is an Endeavor Health urologic oncologist and joined WGN’s Evening News at 4 p.m. on Monday, Aug 17 to ...

On Monday, under pressure to find more money for K-12 schools across Illinois, Pritzker took his reelection campaign to the Illinois Education Association (IEA).

A teenage lifeguard and the boy he rescued off the coast of California were reunited Monday at the White House as President Donald Trump honored both as heroes. “What you did was ...

Western Michigan University athletic director Dan Bartholomae is heading to East Lansing to take over Michigan State University’s Athletic Department. (August 17, 2026) ...

A trail runner was taken to a hospital last week after wildlife authorities in Alaska said she was able to fend off a bear following an attack on a popular Anchorage trail. The woman was on the ...

What it costs to “live comfortably” varies based on where you live and how large your family is, a new study shows.