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After a pleasant start to the weekend in the Chicago area on Friday, another comfortable day is in store for the region on Saturday ahead of a stretch of sweltering heat.

A fire in a South Shore residential building early Saturday morning left one person dead and four others injured, including two young children, according to fire officials.

Heat returns Sunday

Chicago police on Friday were searching for a group of brazen thieves that targeted a longtime family-owned liquor store in a smash-and-grab burglary.

According to the NWI Times, several local Pizza Hut employees posted on social media that all the Northwest Indiana locations were closed without warning, all the employees were let go and told to file for unemployment .

The results of an autopsy conducted on an 8-year-old girl who died Thursday after experiencing a medical emergency on a flight from Joplin, Missouri to Chicago were ruled inconclusive, reported WEEK-TV, the NBC affiliate in Peoria.

Law enforcement in the Chicago suburbs are searching for an armed suspect who is believed to have robbed the same banks twice, authorities said.

Some downtown Chicago roads were blocked and a heavy police presence was reported Friday morning near Grand Avenue and Fairbanks street.

A 76-year-old veteran was carjacked at gunpoint, Chicago police said, and his stolen vehicle was discovered hours later in West Town after it plowed into a building near a busy intersection.

Seasonal temperatures and low humidity made for beautiful conditions to end the work week before a stretch of persistent hot weather and heat indices possibly reaching 105 degrees.

The Cubs aren’t the only ones taking over Wrigley Field this summer.

Many are wondering when Illinois’ massive cicada invasion, which brought trillions of cicadas from two broods in a historic moment to the surface, will come to an end — but there’s something else, something stinky, the area will need to get through first.

For the first time in Wisconsin State Fair history, a change is being made to the fair’s iconic Cream Puff.