The Latest Breaking News from Chicago

A new study backs up a Sun-Times Watchdogs report and comes as rates across the state continue to skyrocket. The study found that bad credit means you pay more for car insurance.

The Guerreros Unidos cartel that authorities say brothers Adan and Mario Casarrubias Salgado led fed Chicago’s appetite for heroin and is blamed for the massacre of 43 students in Mexico.

Yannick Ngakoue is a Chicago Bear and fans are thrilled with the move.

Bally’s executives initially aimed for a mid-August opening at the Medinah Temple. The corporation still needs the final green light from state gambling regulators.

Preservationists say the designation would save St. Adalbert Church from being demolished by the Archdiocese of Chicago, which closed the church in 2019. The hearing is on Monday.

So-called participatory budgeting, in which residents vote on spending projects in their wards, started in the United States in Chicago, but its growth has stalled.

If approved, efforts to modernize Union Station would cut travel times, increase capacity, improve platforms, and connect O’Hare Airport to McCormick Place, officials said.

According to CPD, 59 people were killed across Chicago in July, nearly 12% lower than last year. The number of people shot in July compared to last year fell from 441 to 352.

A rising star in a more progressive Chicago City Council, Fuentes shared her inspirational story hoping it will blaze a positive trail for young people making destructive choices. “I got lucky to have people who introduced me to a world of organizing and movement,” Fuentes told the Sun-Times.

Doc profiles Ted Hall, a Manhattan Project physicist (and sometime Chicagoan) who shared atomic bomb secrets, then spent a lifetime dodging the feds.

While it digs into heavy issues from the local headlines, Showtime series also stands out by showing the fullness of a South Side community.