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It’s a job that doesn’t usually receive much recognition or appreciation, but a Chicago custodian has been honored as one of the best in the country.

At Hinsdale South High School, Jeff Waterman is known for far more than teaching economics—he’s known for changing lives.

A suburban family is demanding changes to Illinois’ SAFE-T Act as the man accused of concealing their daughter’s death walks free, awaiting trial.

Over two years after a large-scale fire ripped through the Morgan Li manufacturing plant in suburban Chicago Heights, the family-owned business has unveiled a new facility.

Following a 20-month renovation that cost $10 million, a Chicago museum renowned as a destination for self-taught art is reopening this week.

Even after 27 years, Lee Crooks still finds it surreal he is heard on every Chicago Transit Authority bus and train speaker in the city. “That’s the part I am unable to wrap my head around,” Crooks said. “I hope to be doing it until my voice gives out.” Crooks got the gig back in 1998, toward the beginning of…...

Last week, Chicago had its earliest 94-degree day in the last 76 years, and yet, we’re back to wearing hats and coats under umbrellas this week.

Concert season at Wrigley Field officially begins Thursday.

After two months of heavy traffic, long commutes and big closures on the Kennedy Expressway, some relief is coming earlier than expected, particularly in the express lanes.

Lakina Mabins is a mother of five, working two jobs to make ends meet — and still, this month she’s graduating college at the top of her class, fulfilling a dream 20 years in the making.

The news comes months after the company, founded in 1995 in Colorado, unveiled a “reimagined” menu, with a slew of new and updated items.

A new salmonella outbreak involving cucumbers has led to another recall as investigators work to determine just how many were distributed in the U.S.

In report from NBC affiliate TMJ4, a statement from the school called the incident “targeted and isolated between the two individuals.”