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A Naperville teenager is hoping to inspire others with a song he composed while battling brain cancer. Listen to the full song here.

As the 2023 Chicago mayoral election is less than a month away, voters preparing to make a decision on who to vote for may also be curious about the candidates’ performance in their neighborhood four years ago.

Details were revealed in court Wednesday in the case of a 70-year-old woman accused of hiding her mother’s body in a freezer, with prosecutors revealing the body has been concealed for nearly two years.

Early this week, investigators discovered Michalski’s body in a deep freezer stored in the garage of a two-flat apartment building where she and Bratcher lived in Portage Park.

Did you miss the “once-in-a-lifetime” green comet as it reached its closest point to Earth Wednesday? Don’t worry. That wasn’t your only chance to catch the extremely rare sight.

Attention Chicago Beyoncé fans: You need to act quickly if you want a shot at buying tickets to Beyoncé’s upcoming Soldier Field shows as part of the singer’s newly announced “Renaissance” 2023 World Tour.

Yes, the fungus that causes a zombie apocalypse in the hit HBO show “The Last of Us” does actually exist, but could the scenario in which it mutates to infect humans actually happen?

Here are the top headlines you need to know as you start your day on Feb. 2, 2023.

While Pennsylvania may look to Punxsutawney Phil for a weather prediction, the Chicago area turns to Woodstock Willie, a local, plump groundhog who lives in the far northwest suburb of Woodstock, where the famous 1993 movie ‘Groundhog Day’ was filmed.

A woman on Wednesday was in critical condition after she was stabbed by a customer at a spa on Chicago’s southwest side, according to authorities.

One local groundhog will wake from his winter nap to predict the weather from precisely the same Chicago-area spot that, in 1993, Bill Murray did, when he delivered the forecast as Phil Connors in the cult classic film ‘Groundhog Day.

A retired Chicago firefighter with apparent ties to militia groups faces federal criminal charges for allegedly participating in an hours-long siege amid the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol.

An iconic venue in suburban Joliet was damaged by a fire on Wednesday afternoon, with an investigation currently underway after the blaze.