As climate change ravages many corners of the country, Illinois — with its nutrient-rich soil and more temperate weather — is emerging as the land of opportunity. But an agricultural landscape ...

Studying a map of the Chicago area, Rand McNally's Frank Pifat, left, production supervisor, and Art Pyzik, right, master cartographer, check for accuracy on Oct. 6, 1964. (Steve Lasker/Chicago's ...

Then, on Friday, July 25, a lineup of chefs will be at the ballpark for Game Day Gourmet at the Crosstown Classic in concert with the Cubs’ and White Sox’s interleague games in July at Rate ...

On Wednesday, Hoover’s federal sentence was commuted, though he will still be required to return to Illinois to resume serving his sentence for a murder he was convicted of in the 1970s.

Chicago’s Major League Soccer club has reached a deal to self-finance a new downtown stadium. Chicago Fire to self-finance downtown stadium on land owned by developer Related Skip to Main Content ...

Frederick Seaton works with the Institute for Nonviolence Chicago, supervising nine street-outreach workers in West Garfield Park, the neighborhood where they all grew up.

NBC 5 Investigates what will happen next to Chicago street gang kingpin and killer Larry Hoover, 24 hours after his federal life sentences were erased.

Wall Street rating agency revises City Hall's financial outlook to 'negative' Fitch said the negative outlook is “driven by a lack of substantial progress procuring permanent, high-impact ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A man was hurt in paintball shooting attack in Chicago's Gold Coast neighborhood on Sunday, according to police. The incident happened at about 10:53 p.m. near Schiller Street and ...

Hoover was known as the founder of the Chicago street gang the Gangster Disciples, and had been convicted in 1973 of ordering the murder of William Young, who was abducted and shot to death in the ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Two men were arrested in Chicago's Southwest Side by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. "It is frightening," 25th Alderman Byron Sigcho-Lopez said. "This can happen to ...

The inspector general's report cites WGN Investigates reporting in 2023 that showed how difficult it was for people required to register to actually do so.