A vehicle tore into a garage near Lowell and Payne Streets in Skokie, leaving the neighboring home damaged too.

Kelsey Flake, a Cedar Hills mother of five, moved to Chicago for a rare double lung transplant treating stage 4 cancer confined to her lungs.

Christopher Buckley’s blood-alcohol level hit 0.221% during his Michigan City arrest, records show, and he still won’t leave the November ballot.

Troopers and deputies swarmed a commercial strip near I-65 in Lowell Saturday night, but key details on victims remain unreleased.

Chicago gets sunshine and a 74-degree high Sunday, but Lake Michigan beaches are hazardous through the evening. Warmer weather arrives Tuesday before midweek storm chances.

Aaron Rosales is jailed on gun charges after nearly 20 shots hit Santi's Gardens in Highwood; Jose Castrejon-Mancilla remains at large.

Dustin Anderson steered Joliet's controversial 800-acre data center deal — now he's gone, and City Hall won't say why.

The Bridgeport rematch moves from a neighborhood diamond to a Major League stadium, with proceeds funding school supplies and youth clinics.

Calendar Avenue turns into a beer garden September 25-27, with brass bands, bratwurst pizza and a stein-holding contest.

A federal judge stepped in one day before classes started, ordering Manhattan School District 114 to re-enroll 10-year-old E at her neighborhood school.

Chicago gets a breezy Saturday with a slight storm chance, followed by dangerous lake conditions late tonight and Sunday. A cooler, mostly sunny stretch arrives next.

The tavern-pizza spot swapped West Town for a Halsted Street room connected to Parson's by an arched doorway.

Officers Salas and Serrano scaled a Grant Park breakwall to save a 59-year-old man who could not swim to shore.