Regal Apartments tenants have climbed up to eight flights for nearly six weeks after both elevators failed. A limited-hours attendant is offering only temporary relief.

A Chicago anti-violence volunteer says he was arrested while trying to surrender a loaded gun. Arne Duncan calls the prosecution a “complete travesty.”

Chicago Public Schools is adding 15 campuses to its Sustainable Community Schools model, but the expansion arrives amid a fight over $150 million in state funding.

A fatal shooting on South Bend’s northwest side has launched an active homicide investigation. Police are asking for anonymous tips as the victim’s identity remains withheld.

Illinois Tech cut approximately 160 faculty and staff just before fall classes, leaving Chicago students worried about canceled courses, missing advisers and disrupted research.

Chicago warms to 84 degrees Tuesday before thunderstorms and heavy rain take over Wednesday and Thursday.

Evanston high school students started moving a two-story house they built in class six blocks across town. The project will become permanently affordable housing.

Two Jeeps, a smashed storefront and a stolen ATM marked another pre-dawn Chicago burglary. Detectives are investigating the Roseland theft.

Daniel Kraus, Scott Turow and Geoff Bennett lead a sprawling 2026 lineup at Chicago’s free Printers Row Lit Fest.

Chicago gets a sunny, mild start to the week before warmer weather gives way to heavy rain and thunderstorms Wednesday into Thursday.

A man died after arriving at a South Side hospital with a chest gunshot wound. Police still do not know where he was shot.

A low-producing Illinois oil operation racked up spills, violations and a state license revocation. Now its remaining wells are under outside oversight.

Three people died and five were hospitalized after a four-vehicle head-on crash shut Illinois 71 near Millbrook overnight.