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Some years, the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah occurs closer to Thanksgiving time, with the eight-day holiday taking place in November or even early December. But in 2024, the festival of lights begins a little bit later — falling right on Christmas.

Just moments after being sworn in as Cook County’s new state’s attorney, Eileen O’Neill Burke announced a change to the county’s policy involving the controversial SAFE-T Act.

NBC 5, Telemundo Chicago and the Salvation Army are partnering once again for the 2024 Angel Tree gift donation program.

Classes at a suburban Glenview high school were canceled Monday and students and staff were sent home after a fire alarm triggered a sprinkler system to be set off in the building, according to an announcement.

What began as a call for a wellbeing check turned into a frightening situation that left a man armed with a chainsaw at a suburban Chicago assisted living center shot and killed by police over the weekend.

After the success of his 2023 Christmas single, “Please Come Home for Christmas,” NBC 5 Chicago morning co-anchor Evrod Cassimy has announced the upcoming release of his new holiday album, “Standing On Christmas.”

A handful of Midwestern cities ranked high on a new list of the “Best Places to Live in the U.S. for 2025-26, with two spots in Wisconsin coming in the top 15. And while Illinois also appeared on the list, only one city in the Prairie State cracked the top 100.

The Chicago Bears will hold a press conference Monday, just days after making history over the long Thanksgiving holiday weekend with the Black Friday firing of head coach Matt Eberflus.

For the first time in nine years, legendary rock band AC/DC will tour in North America beginning in 2025, including a stop in Chicago.

As the Chicago Bears look to face the San Francisco 49ers next week, rumors are swirling as to who will be among the candidates to permanently replace former head coach Matt Eberflus, who was fired Friday following a 23-20 loss to the Detroit Lions on Thanksgiving.

While the Chicago area ushered in the start of meteorological winter with cold, dry weather, winter storm warnings and advisories were brewing for parts of Northern Indiana and Southwestern Michigan, with heavy lake effect snow expected.

Even though e-commerce is now part and parcel of many people’s regular routines and the holiday shopping season, Cyber Monday — a term coined in 2005 by the National Retail Federation — has become the biggest online shopping day of the year, thanks to the deals and the hype the industry has created to fuel it.

Chicago has seen its warmest year on record through November with an average temperature of 57 degrees, according to the National Weather Service.