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.

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.