The Latest Breaking News from Chicago

His mate, Rose, hasn’t been spotted yet this year after flying down to her usual winter getaway in Anclote Key, Florida.

Experts peg the yearly costs at hundreds of millions — and as high as $1 billion — to make Chicago as safe as New York or Los Angeles.

Clearly the price of gas has not led people to curb their driving nor their appetite for big vehicles.

President Donald Trump granted a sweeping pardon on Jan. 20, 2025, to nearly everyone "convicted of offenses related to events that occurred at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021." He also ordered the attorney general to seek dismissal of all pending indictments.

The cost to replace just 380,000 in Chicago could reach $10 billion, an official said at a U.S. Senate hearing on getting rid of pipes with the brain-damaging metal.

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

The Defense Department’s Defense Innovation Unit also has offices on both coasts and in Texas.

The American Lung Association ranked the Chicago metro area’s levels of smog and particle pollution among the top 25 in the country.

A woman was critically wounded in a shooting while she was in a backyard of a home in the 2400 block of West Eastwood Avenue.