The Latest Breaking News from Chicago

Today’s update is a 5-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

Kyrell Pittmon was 19 years old when he allegedly shot a cellphone store clerk in Humboldt Park on May 3, 2019, killing him in the presence of Chicago police officers who chased him and opened fire but missed.

On Thursday, Citadel announced it would move its headquarters from Chicago to Miami.

LOS ANGELES — The world of "The Bear" is built from the kitchen up.

Making good on threats, the richest man in Illinois said he is taking his companies to Miami.

CHICAGO — Inside a rec room at the Logan Correctional Center in downstate Illinois, a projector screen leaned slightly forward but was upright enough as an audience gathered in front of it to watch a film.

Chicago is a major food town, from pricey fine dining to modest neighborhood joints that hit the spot, and I don’t know that I’ve ever seen the sweaty, cacophonous kitchen dynamics of the latter so richly and lovingly portrayed as they are in “The Bear,” a darkly comedic drama that…

A 15-year-old boy was seriously wounded after he was struck by a bullet that went through the window of a Chatham home.

The police sergeant was in Jackson Park on June 11 when Joshua Hudson, 21, struck him with a stolen vehicle, police said.