Richard M. Sullivan

A harrowing holdup in Chicago's Montclare neighborhood left a 24-year-old man in critical condition Monday night after an alleged armed robber shot him during a confrontation on West Belmont Avenue, police said.

A Midwestern developer is quietly circling a hulking former petrochemicals campus on the Naperville-Warrenville line as a possible home for a new data center and manufacturing complex.

Canadian investor Avenue Living has planted a bigger flag in Chicago, scooping up a self-storage and office building in Lincoln Park for about $30.5 million, according to public records.

With Illinois slogging through a record-breaking run of tornado reports this spring, a group of local radio diehards is getting ready to show what happens when the power goes out and the cell towers go dark.

State Sen. Linda Holmes (D-Aurora) is stepping away from the Capitol after a 20-year run, announcing Monday that she will retire at the end of her current term.

First responders launched an urgent search Monday evening along Lake Michigan after witnesses reported that a child entered the water at Washington Park Beach in Michigan City and never came back up.

Mayor Brandon Johnson is putting Chicago's short-term rental industry on notice, saying companies like Airbnb “have to follow the same rules as everyone else” and vowing tougher action on illegal listings.

A fresh look at Chicago-area hospital price lists suggests the federal price-transparency rule has not delivered the clarity many patients were promised.

According to Patch , doorbell and neighborhood security cameras helped investigators zero in on a dark SUV seen rolling through the area.

A three-story office complex just north of O'Hare is up for grabs as its owner scrambles to get ahead of an approaching loan deadline.