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A private contractor working at a Northwest Indiana park was airlifted to a Chicago trauma center on Monday after falling into a manhole, authorities said. In a Facebook post at around 5:06 p.m., the Hobart Fire Department said a contractor fell while entering a manhole at Festival Park, 111 E. Old Ridge Rd. With the assistance of a technical rescu...

High ozone levels, combined with smoke from Canadian wildfires, led to air quality alerts and hazy cries across Chicago on Monday.

Mayor Brandon Johnson on Monday assured 261 new police officers, “I will have your back” — and the rookies applauded when their mayor declared: “If you don’t live in the city of Chicago, you don’t have a right to talk about the city of Chicago.”

Authorities are searching for the person believed to have started a fire at the Lake County Jail in Crown Point, Indiana.

Hundreds of thousands of Illinois residents who filed claims in a multi-million dollar class-action lawsuit alleging Google violated the state’s Biometric Privacy Act, will soon see a payout, although it won’t be as much as originally expected.

The Bears leaving Soldier Field means they’ll have naming rights opportunities for their new stadium, no matter where it is.

How did the Bears go from “singularly focused” on Arlington Heights to shopping around? Could they actually move to Naperville?

Despite pleas from the stadium itself, thousands of Taylor Swift fans set up camp outside Soldier Field in hopes of simply hearing Taylor Swift’s Chicago shows as they happened.

Residents of one Chicago suburb on Monday have the pleasure of experiencing a rather extraordinary phenomenon that occurs once about every 100 years.

It’s a Barbie world, and Chicago, you’re about to be living in it.

Construction on the Kennedy Expressway may be challenging, but one commuter’s apparent way around it is sparking warnings from officials.

More than 190,000 lucky Taylor Swift ticket holders over the course of three nights took over Solder Field in Chicago. But those inside the stadium weren’t the only ones who enjoyed the show.

Taylor Swift had an unexpected encounter with a bug while onstage at Chicago’s Soldier Field for the last of her three sold-out performances — and her reaction had many fans laughing.