The Far Northwest Side board member says she won't drag supporters into a fight against big union and self-funded spending.

A stolen Knight Transportation trailer full of Nike sneakers meant for Dallas ended up in a Des Plaines cargo yard instead.

Pizzeria Gabbo will pour Chicago Thin & Crispy and New York-style slices with 20-plus wines by the glass, this fall.

Save Our City, Save Our Future needs $550,000 a year just to keep training Chicago-area teens in construction and culinary arts.

Iowa's Big Grove Brewery has a contract to buy the Palatine landmark and plans a restaurant and taproom by the Metra stop.

Trustees voted 6-1 to raise Oak Park's bag fee yearly through 2029, teeing up a full plastic bag ban in 2030.

John Schlosser, 49, allegedly asked to pet a woman's dog before exposing himself outside an Oak Lawn school.

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.