Brandon Ison

Saturday and Sunday is Open House Chicago, with the public gaining access to nearly 200 significant sites throughout the city, including the Great Hall inside the Federal Reserve Bank in the Loop.

A new brewery in a south suburb honors a late hometown rapper. Brian Wallace, the brother of Jarad Higgins who is also known as Juice WRLD, is now the head brewmaster at the Homewood Brewery on Dixie Highway in Homewood.

Early voting sites for the 2024 general election have now opened across the city, each with a number of resources to assist voters. Chicago Board of Elections Chair Marisel Hernandez says the early voting sites will be open seven days a week.

Just a week after two western suburbs honored Chicago rapper “Lil Durk” for his charitable work, he was arrested in south Florida in connection with a murder-for-hire investigation. The leaders of those communities had very different reactions.

Waukegan resident Kassandra Fajardo-Rodriguez, 30, died this past week from severe injuries that Waukegan Police say came from being struck by three vehicles. All three drivers kept on going after she was hit by them.

A large mosaic pathway will be removed, restored and relocated after nearly two decades at a North Side Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) Brown Line train station.

Advocates for immigrants and the homeless are reacting to gaps in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s newly proposed 2025 budget for Chicago, when it comes to funding migrant and homeless services.

Residents in parts of Joliet and Crest Hill are being asked to boil their water until further notice. A dramatic drop in the system’s water pressure was caused by firefighters battling a large blaze at the BL Duke Scrap Metal Recycling Yard.

A Halloween hostage situation in Tinley Park ended with one man’s arrest on multiple felony counts, and on Sunday the Cook County Sheriff’s Office shared more information with the public.

The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) train operator involved in a Yellow Line crash nearly one year ago, which injured dozens, has still not been fired — despite a recent revelation that he had alcohol in his system at the time.