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Morning rain showers Friday brought brief relief from dry weather for some, but it likely won’t be enough to keep fire risks at bay this weekend.

Sam Dutcher had just finished running errands when the 18-year-old’s Honda Pilot suddenly began to accelerate, even though his foot wasn’t on the gas pedal. The brake wouldn’t work, he couldn’t shift into neutral, and before long, the runaway SUV was speeding into the western Minnesota countryside with no way to stop....

A suburban Chicago woman got a slithery surprise when she discovered an animal living inside her recently purchased vehicle — but it wasn’t an animal many in the Midwest would expect.

A massive geomagnetic storm could make the Northern Lights visible in the Chicago area on multiple nights this week.

The Savannah Bananas will be playing in Chicago for the first time in 2025, with excited fans already wondering how they can secure their tickets.

A man previously convicted of killing a Chicago police officer has been released from prison after his conviction was overturned by a Cook County judge.

Chicago’s South Side has its own unique barbecue culture, rooted in the 1940s. and some of the area’s best barbecue can be found in Beverly.

Charges have been filed against a woman who allegedly spat on a man before shooting him during an altercation on a CTA Red Line train in the Edgewater neighborhood Wednesday.

It was on the grounds of the Indiana Dunes National Park where Todd Ravesloot said contractors found something unexpected in the foundation of the historic Good Fellow Lodge.

Chicago police are offering additional details after an officer and another individual were shot in the city’s Englewood neighborhood on Thursday.

While runners from across the globe are making final preparations for the 2024 Bank of America Chicago Marathon, those hoping to run in some of Chicago’s biggest races next year can begin registering later this month.

For the past year, questions, rumors and heartbreak swirled. What happened to a Romeoville family brutally murdered, and why? Those questions went unanswered, until now.

A federal report on a tanker-truck crash a year ago in central Illinois that spilled a toxic chemical and killed five people includes an interview with a 17-year-old Ohio girl who concedes that the truck was forced off the road when she passed it with the minivan she was driving. The tanker, carrying caustic anhydrous ammonia, left the road and......