Rep. Bob Rita testified in a Cook County trial that obscene, digitally altered messages circulated about him and a Tinley Park figure. Prosecutors say phone forensics link the spoofed texts to a former political operative.

Michaels asked a court to declare it didn’t infringe the work of Chicago muralist Jordan Nickel after he objected to an image used in an Ironlak spray‑paint ad.

A Naperville jury convicted a woman of murdering her boyfriend on Feb. 6, 2026, the local Fox affiliate reported. Sentencing and defendant details were not included in the brief post.

Five teens were arrested after Aurora police say a juvenile was robbed at gunpoint; license‑plate‑reader hits led officers to a crashed SUV and a recovered firearm.

Mid-teens at dawn, mostly sunny and a high near 24. A brief late-night shot of snow could dust far northeast neighborhoods.

A 53-year-old man was shot inside a Chatham home Friday evening and later died. Police are investigating the incident as a homicide.

Longtime Tribune reporter Stacy St. Clair will become managing editor on Feb. 9, taking over newsroom leadership from Phil Jurik.

Stephon L. Smith, 43, was fatally shot on the 3500 block of Maple Lane in Hazel Crest and pronounced dead late Tuesday.

ABC7 Chicago, the League of Women Voters and Univision will stream a live Republican Senate primary forum next Wednesday at 7 p.m. featuring three GOP candidates.

A 36-year-old woman was found shot to death Friday inside a West Rogers Park home on the 6900-block of North Bell Avenue. Area Three detectives have opened a homicide investigation.

A Powerball ticket sold at Refiners Citgo in Forest Park matched five white-ball numbers in Wednesday’s drawing for a $1 million prize; the retailer gets a $10,000 bonus.

Cboe plans exchange-listed yes-or-no event contracts that lean on SPX liquidity and exchange clearing, pitching a securities-based alternative to Kalshi and Polymarket. The exchange says it will avoid sports markets.

A new Journal of Great Lakes Research paper finds PFAS in lake trout and walleye peaked in the 2007–2017 window and fell by 2020, but state advisories still apply.