A sunny 80-degree Friday sets up a hotter week in Chicago, with scattered storm chances arriving Sunday and continuing into Thursday.

Shirley Caesar and Leela James headline the Labor Day weekend festival, which now spans nearly 300 vendor booths.

Merchants pressed officials over rising costs as Aurora eyes a new downtown tax district to replace one expiring this year.

Eileen O’Neill Burke scrapped the public list of untrustworthy officers, and some defense lawyers say disclosures now arrive the morning of trial.

A Field Museum curator's childhood love of Guns N' Roses helped inspire the name Lielaphis slashi for a newly confirmed New Guinea snake species.

The 17-year-old was last seen in Mishawaka and South Bend, with family fearing for his welfare across the Michigan border.

The River North steakhouse loved by Jeremy Allen White will go dark after Sept. 19, with no exact reopening date confirmed.

Stadium Green expects over 4,000 shoppers Sunday, with Mayor Brandon Johnson and live music on the bill.

Stephen Miller, 41, ran a Northwestern engineering facility since 2015. Police dogs Grip and Enzo helped find hidden devices at his home.

An 800-signature petition backs turning the shuttered school into parkland, but Evanston Township High School wants the site too.

CityPads now owns the old Islamic College parking lot, but the 192-unit senior building it was meant for is off the table.

Darryl Short, 45, faces a detention hearing Thursday after allegedly leaving a woman to die on West 79th Street.

Four or five suspects rammed a gray Jeep into a West Ogden Avenue gas station before dawn and made off with the ATM.