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White Sox pitcher Liam Hendriks is expected to be activated on Monday after a successful battle with non-Hodgkins lymphoma.

The biggest waterpark in Illinois is nearly done dusting off its 32 waterslides for the 2023 season.

Temperatures rise into the 80s in the suburbs today while lakefront temperatures reach the upper 60s. Hotter days are around the corner.

A family is sharing their heartbreak this Memorial Day weekend after their loved one was shot and killed in the city’s Lakeview neighborhood. William Hair, 34 was shot to death at around 2:14 a.m. Sunday in the 500 block of West Surf Street. Hair was found on the sidewalk with a gunshot wound to his chest and later taken to…

Chicago police are investigating after a two-year-old girl accidentally shot herself on Sunday evening in the city’s Rogers Park neighborhood, authorities said. At around 6:15 p.m., officers were called to the 1500 block of West Jonquil Terrace regarding a person who had been shot. Upon arrival, officers discovered a two-year-old who had been...

Readings hit the upper 80s by Wednesday

Just weeks into his first term as mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson is vowing to tackle violence through collaboration, counting on Chicago police, but also community groups this Memorial Day weekend and beyond. One such group, MASK, Mothers of Men Against Senseless Killings is led by Tamar Manasseh. Manasseh said the strategy is crime through posi...

Two of Metra’s busiest lines that service many of Chicago’s western and northwestern suburbs will see changes to their schedules following Memorial Day.

The Northwestern Wildcats are champions again, capturing the NCAA Division I women’s lacrosse crown on Sunday afternoon.

The National Weather Service is urging residents to be cautious as an air quality action day has been enacted for parts of northwest Indiana on Memorial Day.

Chicago police say eight people have been killed and at least 26 others wounded in shootings across the city over the holiday weekend.

A man in a neon “peacekeepers” vest beat up and robbed a man in Little Village Friday night, police said, just as dozens of violence prevention workers sprawled out across Chicago over the Memorial Day weekend.

A 26-year-old woman is facing a murder charge nearly a year after a 4-year-old girl allegedly left in her care died of injuries she suffered from child abuse.