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RCS text messaging has gained plenty of attention in recent weeks, but for some phone users, a change could be in store, according to a recent alert from Verizon.

Country music superstar Keith Urban has announced a new world tour for 2025 with a stop in Chicago.

The word of the year in 2023 was “authentic.” This year’s comes as large swaths of the U.S. struggle to reach consensus on what is real

Star rapper and entrepreneur Jay-Z, whose real name is Shawn Carter, has released a statement after being accused in a lawsuit of raping a 13-year-old girl in 2000, allegedly along with Sean “Diddy” Combs, NBC News reported.

More mild temperatures were in the Chicago forecast Monday before a major temperature swing will bring a chance for flurries and wind chills as low as -20 degrees.

A man was fatally shot on Sunday evening in the city’s South Chicago neighborhood, authorities said.

Two people were fatally shot on Sunday afternoon in south suburban Matteson, authorities said.

Mild conditions on Monday before temps plunge

Several new stores are expected to open at the popular Gurnee Mills mall in the northern suburbs over the next year and a half.

A central Illinois county coroner was found dead in an apparent hunting accident on a lake, authorities said Saturday.

A 34-year-old man was arrested on first-degree murder charges in connection with a deadly stabbing in suburban Elgin, authorities said.

A fire tore through an apartment building in Crown Point early Sunday morning, leaving numerous units uninhabitable.

A shooting and a car crash on Chicago’s West Side left one person dead and at least six others injured on Sunday, authorities said.