After three straight 100-loss seasons including a record 121 defeats in 2024 the White Sox needed a little excitement.Munetaka Murakami has certainly provided that.

A man found dead near Chicago Executive Airport Sunday was identified as a 68-year-old Prospect Heights resident.

A 38-year-old Warrenville man died Saturday after crashing his motorcycle in Crystal Lake.

The U.S. military on Monday denied claims that Iran struck a Navy vessel as U.S. forces now offer to guide commercial ships through the Strait of Hormuz, where hundreds have been stuck since the Iran war began. Tehran over the past two months has attacked some vessels and blocked others that dont receive its authorization.

A woman found dead Thursday in a Schaumburg home has been identified by police as 43-year-old Katherine Torbick.

This mess has been ongoing for over two years, one reader says of IDOTs Route 56 project. Plus, we delve into Illinois tollway and DMV quandaries.

Long Grove is well known, notorious even, for the frequency at which the towns iconic covered bridge has been hit by vehicles too big to pass through. Now local store Broken Bridge Treats is paying tribute to that history with a minimuseum documenting the dozens of mishaps.

Drone technology is being embraced with growing frequency by suburban police departments that are looking to the airborne devices as automated first responders.

Palatine unveiled a community food scrap drop-off site and special materials recycling center at its Public Works facility, 148 W. Illinois Ave.

Firefighters from several departments battled a blaze Sunday morning that broke out on a third-story balcony and spread into the attic of a Glendale Heights apartment building.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- A cargo ship near the Strait of Hormuz said it was attacked by multiple small craft, the British military's United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations center reported on Sunday, the latest in at least two dozen attacks in and around the strait since the Iran war began.

A man found dead Sunday along the fence of the Chicago Executive Airport in Prospect Heights may have been the victim of a hit-and-run driver, police said.

The historic limestone remnant of an 1840s blacksmith shop on the former Mill Race Inn site in Geneva is now entirely covered in a giant sheet of white plastic.

Cubs pitcher Ben Brown came up with a self-improvement plan when last season ended. Now he hasnt allowed an earned run in 14 innings and combined with Shota Imanaga for a 2-0 shutout over Arizona on Saturday.

AND IN THE END, all sports are loaded with assorted degrees of live theater.

A rare, eight-sided barn that stood on the south end of Spring Grove for well over a century is getting raised again. The circa-1876 barn stood on the Hatch-Kattner farm for nearly 150 years, but was on its last legs when the farmland went up for sale three years ago, said George Richardson, of Richardson Adventure Farm. Taken apart piece by piece and ...

Authorities are investigating the cause of that left a Bartlett home uninhabitable Saturday morning.

Rosemont on steroids or billionaire boys club are among the reasons Democrats and Republicans cited for their votes on the Bears stadium-linked megaproject bill.

On May 7, 1976, Elk Grove Village police Detective Raymond J. Rose stepped into a Brantwood Avenue home and encountered one of the most shocking crimes in suburban Cook County history. Frank Columbo, 52, his wife Mary, 50, and their 13-year-old son, Michael, were dead. Each had been shot, bludgeoned and stabbed. It was so horrific and out of the ordinary, ...

More details emerge in the case of an early morning stabbing April 30 in Arlington Heights.

Three second half goals in rapid fire helped end a recent scoring drought for Hersey who claimed a 3-0 victory over visiting Schaumburg in a MSL West Division contest Friday night at Roland Goins Stadium in Arlington Heights.

Second baseman Nico Hoerner had to leave the game with a sore neck, but the Cubs held on to beat Arizona 6-5 at Wrigley Field on Friday.

Mark your calendar for Mexico Fest at Navy Pier, Lombard Lilac Time, Go Fly a Kite in Wheatons Graf Park, Art in Wilder Park in Elmhurst, Katt Williams at Chicagos United Center and more.

A huge field of 22 boys track teams were assembled for the 58th annual Wanner Knights' Invitational Friday night at Prospect.

Following a call from organizers for no school, no work, no shopping, people around the suburbs and across the country rallied to honor workers on May Day Friday.