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An attorney representing relatives of a woman shot dead following a police pursuit and crash in Oklahoma related to a quadruple murder in a Chicago suburb said Thursday that her family believes the woman was kidnapped and had nothing to do with the gruesome crime.

The search for a suspect and a person-of-interest in the fatal shootings of a Romeoville family came to a fiery end on Wednesday when both individuals died following a crash on an Oklahoma highway.

Police in Indiana are still searching for a homicide suspect they say was mistakenly released from custody last week.

The fourth and final consecutive supermoon of 2023 — nicknamed the “Harvest Moon” will rise at the end of September, just a few days after the fall equinox takes place.

A Chicago pizzeria was just listed among the world’s best in a ranking fresh out of the oven.

The finish line at the 2023 Bank of America Chicago Marathon could see a number of records broken in what could be an historic year for the annual race.

As the fall equinox approaches, here’s a look at some of the important fall dates to keep in mind, from when fall colors in Illinois will be at their brightest, to the day Illinois turns its clocks back.

Aja Evans, an Olympic bobsled medalist from Chicago, filed a lawsuit against the USA Bobsled and Skeleton Federation, alleging nearly a decade of “sexual abuse and harassment” by the team’s osteopathic medical provider while Evans trained and competed for the USA Bobsled team, her attorneys said Thursday.

As cases and hospitalizations climb in the U.S., government officials are bringing back a program that brings free COVID tests mailed directly to residents — and it all starts next week.

Chicago police are investigating after a slew of violent armed robberies overnight across several neighborhoods, including one in which a valet parking attendant at a hotel on Michigan Avenue said he was robbed and attacked.

Chicago has taken the first concrete step to deliver on Mayor Brandon Johnson’s controversial plan to get more than 2,000 migrants off the floors of police stations, O’Hare and Midway airports and into giant tent cities he prefers to call “winterized base camps” before temperatures plummet.

At least five cases of Shiga Toxin-Producing E. coli have been reported at suburban Huntley High School, officials say.

More details in the slaying of an Illinois family of four from the Chicago suburb of Romeoville unfolded Wednesday after police said two suspects in the case were found shot — one fatally — following a fiery car crash in Oklahoma.