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.

Kankakee’s Gift of God shelter won a 7-0 planning vote for 12 transitional-housing beds. Funding and staffing could determine whether the program ever opens.

A North Lawndale youth boxing nonprofit has nearly tripled its daily capacity with a new Lawndale Plaza facility.

Randy Travis and his wife flew to the Chicago area to fulfill a cancer patient’s wish at City of Hope.

Two men were shot in West Garfield Park Friday afternoon, and one remains in critical condition after four attackers opened fire from a white sedan.

A wrong-way driver triggered a five-vehicle crash on Chicago’s Dan Ryan, killing one person and critically injuring two others.

Hawthorn Mall is getting a $5 million interior glow-up as Vernon Hills pushes ahead with a larger mixed-use transformation. The redesign adds warmer finishes, lounge areas and a revamped Kids Zone.

A $107.4 million loan tied to Lombard’s Yorktown Center has defaulted just as the mall’s ambitious apartment-and-park redevelopment opens.

A Chicago-led IBM and University of Chicago experiment claims a quantum advantage milestone with 70 logical qubits and built-in error verification.

Malik Wrightsell’s lawyer disputes the official account of a South Side police shooting and says a wounded officer was not shot by her client.

A missing-person call led DeKalb police to an upside-down vehicle in a creek, where a man was found dead and a 1-year-old was airlifted.

Chicago is weighing taller, smarter fare gates modeled on systems in New York and the Bay Area. A pilot could arrive early next year.