The boy vanished into Lake Michigan near 8:54 p.m. Monday, hours after Silver Beach's lifeguards had gone home for the season.

Deputies shut down all lanes for hours after a vehicle struck a pedestrian in the 4000 block of US 35 North.

The $4 million facility on Canal Street adds private family rooms and doubles down on dignity for the Illinois Valley’s unhoused.

A medical helicopter landed on the Borman Expressway after a semi crash near Kennedy Avenue left one person critically hurt.

The rider died at a hospital after a vehicle turning from Grand onto Maple struck his motorcycle. It's Franklin Park's second deadly two-wheel crash since June.

West Chicago placed an officer on leave and asked DuPage prosecutors to weigh criminal charges over suspected Flock camera misuse dating to December 2024.

The attacker fled in a white pickup truck that police say was waiting nearby. It's the second violent attack near the trail's western end since June.

A thief spent just 20 seconds inside Bombastic Café before making off with a cash register, one of eight break-ins along Southport Avenue.

Joseph Panfil sold his two-decade-old Racine Street loft office to a rebranded addiction-treatment nonprofit, freeing up cash for a 500,000-square-foot McKinley Park redevelopment.

Anthony Reed Jr. was exploring an abandoned rock quarry near the Old Joliet Prison with four friends when he fell. A fundraiser has already topped $16,000.

Drifting cars scorched tire marks into 111th and Western as residents flooded 911 lines over the weekend.

Mickey and Minnie head south down Michigan Avenue on November 21 as the nation's largest evening parade lights over a million bulbs.

A sedan suffered major front-end damage in the Kostner and Congress Parkway crash; the cause remains unknown.