Hegewisch's Wolf Lake gets an ADA-accessible pier and kayak launch, plus free poles for 300 kids Saturday.

The Southport Corridor closes to cars this weekend as 14 eateries, wrestlers and tribute bands take over Lakeview.

Clarendon Community Center Park welcomes NPR's Cheryl Corley and jazz singer Lucy Smith for a free show blending Langston Hughes with Beyoncé.

Police found the man unresponsive with cuts and facial trauma before dawn on West 76th Street. No arrests have been made.

David Vega attacked a stranger near North Mango Avenue while on probation for domestic battery, court records show.

A vandal sliced cords and spray-painted a Bloomingdale-Armitage camera as Will County heads toward Thursday's board vote.

Oglesby Towers renters say surprise utility charges and broken elevators pushed them to organize against TLC Management.

A.J. Gow says he sent his co-worker down for water and a fan as he waited, trapped 130 feet up, for rescuers to reach him.

Witnesses told Gurnee police the attack unfolded in front of hundreds of parkgoers near the Superman ride.

A deadly crash near Kinsman closed Gardner and Johnny Run roads, an intersection with a history of rollover wrecks.

A 39-year-old rider was hospitalized after a late-night stabbing at the South Loop Green Line stop, the third violent attack there in recent years.

A Kane County jury convicted Quinton Hawkins after a 7-year-old testified he threatened to kill her if she told anyone.

Vandy Projects wants to turn the long-vacant church at Spaulding and Pierce into rentals, with six units set aside as affordable.