Landex Holding paid $750,000 for the Willow Street lot before razing an 1888 residence for a four-unit building with roof decks.

An extended-stay Wyndham hotel could rise near Aurora's new casino, but a semi-truck near-miss has one alderman worried about I-88 merging lanes.

License plate readers helped Bloomington police track down the driver within hours after he allegedly fled the scene.

Owen Shaker died at 6 after a brief battle with DIPG. His Oak Park block party has since raised over $111,000 for research.

A Norfolk Southern worker found her on a gondola car in Elkhart’s sprawling rail yard. Investigators still don’t know who she was.

A 6-year-old lab named Miller died after hours locked in a Waggles Pet Resort transport van. His family says they deserve accountability.

Tickets to the Manhattan Short Film Festival at the Glen Art Theatre fund four College of DuPage scholarships awarded by AAUW Wheaton-Glen Ellyn.

ABC Plumbing allegedly hid unlicensed work and blocked customers from reading contracts they signed on tablets, the state claims.

Both patients developed the neuroinvasive form of the disease, as Kane County logs its first human cases of the 2026 season.

The Austin firm is buying a defunct Atrium office campus days after closing a $90M deal for Stickney's bankrupt Hawthorne Race Course.

CPS canceled outdoor athletics and recess citywide Thursday, but classroom AC means no early dismissals like Detroit or Pittsburgh saw this week.

A man got out of a black sedan, opened fire on the 4000 block of South Lake Park Avenue, then sped off. Police still have no one in custody.

Mayor Brandon Johnson blames council opponents and past mismanagement as pension costs climb $160 million next year.