BNSF inbound and outbound trains are stopped due to a freight train striking a pedestrian near Naperville. Duration of the delay is unknown. Metra will provide updates as they become available. Metra ...

But for the first time in 24 years, Cook County has a new chief judge — 55-year-old Charlie Beach — who defeated Timothy Evans in September by a 144 to 109 vote.

WCPO-TV weekend anchor Bret Buganski jokes that his 18-year TV news career “sounds like a Johnny Cash song: Quincy, Illinois; Champaign, Illinois; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Tucson, Arizona; Oklahoma City, ...

The trial, set to start Dec. 8 and last 10 days, represents a high-stakes gamble for the city, whose lawyers typically recommend settling civil cases involving actions by the police that led to ...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. ( 25News Now and First Alert 4) - An Amtrak train that left St. Louis for Chicago around 8 a.m. Sunday was ...

A Winter Storm Warning is in effect in the Chicago area until Sunday morning. A snowstorm is expected to bring up to 8 inches ...

While the bulk of a winter storm has concluded, a winter weather advisory remains in effect across most of the Chicago area.

A winter storm threatening to unleash nearly a foot of snow on the Chicago area began to hit the region late Saturday morning ...

Morgan Geyser in custody of the Posen Police Department in Illinois. She fled Wisconsin and another person, an unknown man, ...

Gov. JB Pritzker wants Peoria City/County Health Administrator Monica Hendrickson to serve another three-year term on the ...

Chicago has entered what many consider a new uneasy phase of a Trump administration immigration crackdown that has already ...

The attack occurred Monday night near the Clark and Lake station on a Chicago Transit Authority Blue Line train and was captured on CTA security video, authorities said.