The City of Chicago has filed a lawsuit against Airbnb and Slumber Stay, one of the platform's most active local hosts, alleging repeated violations of the city's Shared Housing Ordinance and consumer protection laws.
More than 50 years after her body was pulled from the Mississippi River, a 15-year-old girl known only as Jane Clinton Doe has finally been identified as Cheryl Lynn Edwards, a teenager who had been living in Waukegan, Illinois.
Illinois has shattered its all-time tornado record with 196 twisters so far this year, and state leaders are now raising urgent alarms about whether federal disaster relief will reach the communities that need it most.
First responders suspended dive operations late Monday after a child was seen entering Lake Michigan at Washington Park Beach in Michigan City and did not resurface, with four rescue divers injured amid life-threatening wave conditions.
County workers began soil testing Monday for the Bronzeville Trail, a $100 million, two-mile elevated bike path set to become the South Side's answer to the 606 — with a 2030 opening on the horizon.
Destiny Neal, a 16-year-old Elgin girl reported missing just two days before, has been identified as the body recovered from the Fox River near the Kimball Street Bridge on Sunday afternoon.
Authorities are investigating after human remains were discovered in a residential backyard in Darien on Friday afternoon. The DuPage County Coroner's Office and local investigators are working to identify the remains.
Two people were killed and five others hospitalized after tornadoes tore through rural Jefferson County in southern Illinois on Sunday, destroying homes and sending debris flying as a severe storm system also threatened the Chicago area with flooding.
A 46-year-old man was struck by flying glass Sunday morning after a bullet from an expressway shootout pierced a CTA Red Line train window near 95th Street.
A 24-year-old Georgia man faces multiple charges after allegedly driving to suburban Chicago to pick up a runaway girl he had been communicating with online, Lake County authorities say.
Marcus Chatman Jr., a 14-year-old from West Pullman, was shot multiple times late Thursday night in Auburn Gresham and died just after midnight Friday, leaving his youth football team and family devastated.
JC Penney will close its Ford City Mall location on Sunday as a court-ordered shutdown forces most of the long-standing Chicago shopping center to go dark due to dangerous structural and safety conditions.
A Chicago alderman has introduced an ordinance to honorarily rename the stretch of North Wabash Avenue outside Trump Tower to 'Barack Hussein Obama Way,' a pointed tribute timed to coincide with the opening of the Obama Presidential Center.
The Chicago Dyke March is coming back on June 27 for the first time since 2019, celebrating its 30th anniversary with a march and rally in Pilsen during the city's Pride Fest weekend.
A man jumped into Lake Michigan at Montrose Harbor on Friday afternoon and did not resurface. Emergency responders pulled him from the water, but he was later pronounced dead at a nearby hospital.
Two gunmen opened fire from a red SUV into a crowd near West 95th Street on Chicago's South Side late Friday night, injuring at least 12 people ranging in age from 17 to 47.
Zafar Padamsee Mawani and Guillermo Jaffet Hidalgo Ortiz, a married Chicago couple who had recently moved to Mexico City, have been confirmed dead after vanishing in late May. Authorities discovered four bodies on the outskirts of the capital during the search.
A 7-year-old boy was pulled unresponsive from a retention pond in Lake in the Hills Wednesday evening and later pronounced dead at a nearby hospital. Authorities say foul play is not suspected.
Jonathan Toews, the three-time Stanley Cup champion and captain who defined an era of Blackhawks hockey, has announced his retirement after 16 NHL seasons.
An 18-year-old Oak Park man has been charged with first-degree murder after a 27-year-old Chicago man was fatally shot while riding a Divvy bike in Grant Park early Tuesday morning.
A 20-year-old woman is suing the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, alleging she was sexually abused while in state care at a South Side facility — and that DCFS ignored thousands of warning signs.
Three people — an 81-year-old man, a 60-year-old man, and an 88-year-old woman — were found dead Tuesday at a Buffalo Grove residence, with police saying there is no indication of foul play.
An explosive device was detonated in front of Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez's Pilsen home in the early morning hours Saturday, shattering a window and prompting the alderman to condemn the incident as politically motivated.
A fruit vendor ticketed by Chicago police for selling without a license was arrested by federal immigration agents as she left a West Side courthouse, deepening fears among immigrant communities about the intersection of local enforcement and ICE.