Todd Feurer

Former Chicago Ald. George Cardenas plans to jump into the race for mayor. Cardenas plans to formally kick off his campaign on Tuesday in the Back of the Yards neighborhood.

Queen of Martyrs School, a Catholic elementary school in Evergreen Park, will not reopen in the 2026-27 school year, officials announced Monday, citing declining enrollment.

Chicago police are asking for help finding the man who punched a woman in the head at a CTA Pink Line stop last week in the North Lawndale neighborhood.

A former south suburban police officer has been sentenced to more than 5 years in prison after he was convicted earlier this year of federal corruption charges.

A member of the City Council is pushing to rename Northerly Island, the lakefront park and nature preserve which was once home to Meigs Field airport, after Chicago native Pope Leo XIV.

The Chicago City Council on Wednesday approved a plan to buy the city's Greyhound bus station in the West Loop to avoid its possible closure​.

An animal rescue group in northwest Indiana is helping care for dozens of guinea pigs, many of which are pregnant, after they were rescued from what police said was a squalid home on Tuesday morning.

A 7-year-old child who had gone missing died after being pulled out of a retention pond on Wednesday evening in northwest suburban Lake in the Hills.

Federal prosecutors have abruptly dropped charges against three men accused of trying to rob undercover ATF agents during a gun trafficking operation in Country Club Hills​, citing newly discovered video evidence.

A man has been charged in the shooting death of a bicyclist in Grant Park in downtown Chicago on Tuesday morning.