CHICAGO (WLS) -- Friday, June 20 marked the first day of summer in Chicago. The city normally sees an uptick in violence as ...

At least 23 people have been shot, two fatally, so far over the first weekend of summer in Chicago, police said.

The Chicago Bears have undergone a full-scale reset, and it starts at the top with new head coach Ben Johnson. Now entering ...

Get lost in the college town charm of this Chicago-adjacent city, which boasts suburb vibes, access to plenty of beaches, and ...

Three undergraduate students at the University of Chicago won a new housing challenge for proposing a citywide vacancy tax. The tax would fund affordable, infill housing.

The series was filmed in the city and created with input from Chicago writer and academic Eve L. Ewing, who helped reinvent ...

National Museum of Public Housing leaders hope visitors see there’s more to life in public housing than what's on the news.

A Chicago police officer and former University of Illinois quarterback was taken into custody Wednesday after he was allegedly caught stealing sports memorabilia from a store in Evergreen Park.

Michael Jordan’s second comeback didn’t just reignite the league’s hype, it quietly caused friction with the very stars meant ...

CHICAGO — Kathy Austin and her guide dog, Rowen, navigate the streets of Chicago together, but it can often be a harrowing experience due to the lack of accessible pedestrian signals in the city.

Chicago’s National Public Housing Museum opened in April in the last remaining building of a public housing complex, located some 2 miles from the city’s iconic downtown.

In 2023, three times more people were killed in Chicago than in war-torn Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital of roughly the same size.