Service on Metras Milwaukee District West line was impacted Monday due to reports of police activity. According to Metra officials, trains on the line were halted near the Big Timber Road/Elgin stop due to ongoing police activity. An inbound train due to leave that station at 4:22 p.m. was canceled, and an outbound train scheduled to stop there at ...

A missing 16-year-old girl has been identified as the body pulled from the Fox River in a northwest Chicago suburb over the weekend. Destiny Neal, of Elgin, was found dead in the water north of the Kimball Street Bridge Sunday afternoon, Elgin police said in a release Monday. Neal had been reported missing just two days earlier. According to a ...

Hundreds of hospitality staff are on strike as they push for higher wages and healthcare from employer Delaware North.

The Jimmy Awards honoring "theatre kids" is happening on Monday night in New York City!

Tens of thousands of Xfinity users across the country reported widespread service issues on Monday afternoon, including in the Chicago area. More than 26,000 users indicated problems at around 3:20 p.m., according to the website Downdetector. Of the reports received, 80% were related to television, 10% were tied to internet service and 8% involved ...

Music artists mourned the death of Clive Davis, one of the industry’s most powerful figures who launched or resurrected the careers of artists ranging from Whitney Houston to Carlos Santana. Santana on Monday called Davis a visionary. Barry Manilow said music wasn’t just business to Davis, it was family. Michael Bubl said the music executive believed ...

The work of scientists along portions of a long idle rail line is hoped to be the start of a project that connects Chicagoans through Bronzeville and to the city's history.

The boat ran into an island around 11 p.m. on June 13.

Amazon Prime Day starting Tuesday will be a litmus test of U.S. shoppers' spending power, with the earlier-than-usual sales event increasingly centered on necessities rather than carefree splurges.

The family of Chester Otto Weger, convicted in 1961 of the murders of three women in Starved Rock State Park but paroled in 2020, say he deserves a pardon from the governor. On Monday, they filed a petition for executive clemency with the Illinois Prisoner Review Board, arguing that Weger, who died in 2025, was innocent. The filing today is our last ...

Authorities are investigating after human remains were discovered in a backyard in southwest suburban Darien, police said Monday. At around 3 p.m. on Friday, officers with the Darien Police Department were called to Brookhaven Avenue near Juniper Lane for a report of human remains in a residence’s backyard. Officers arrived at the property and ...

Oregon's rural hospitals are set to receive $37.5 million in state and federal funds to support labor and delivery care.

A Coast Guard helicopter has crashed in Alaska and all four crew members were injured.

Madison College will host its annual Dream Doubles pickleball fundraiser from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, June 27, at Pickleball Kingdom in Sun Prairie.

Due to water service repair work in the area, the city of La Crosse's Veterans Memorial Pool will be temporarily closed Tuesday.

Francis Howell School District will ask voters to approve $150 million in bonds this November, about five months earlier than leaders had planned.

The U.S. Department of Labor wants the court to impose a civil penalty of at least $103,000

The last eight American passengers who endured 42 days in a specialized hospital quarantine unit after exposure to an unusual hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship that killed three people have left the Nebraska facility.

The FBI is searching for a man with Chicago ties in connection with a casino vault heist in central Missouri earlier this year, the agency said. Hollis C. Vanleer Jr. is wanted for a March 25 robbery at Isle of Capri Casino Hotel in Boonville, approximately 25 miles west of Columbia. According to an FBI bulletin, Vanleer Jr. and another man – both ...

Chicago police have issued a community alert after a suspect attacked multiple women in recent days in the South Shore neighborhood. According to Chicago police, a suspect sexually assaulted a woman who was jogging at Rainbow Beach Park on June 13 at approximately 6:05 a.m. The suspect approached the woman from behind, grabbed her and threw her to ...

Monday marked the end of an era for a once-popular Chicago mall after the building closed its doors permanently following a decades-long run. So what’s happens to the property now? “Its really sad that the place is closing up. It was one of the last memories for us,” said Cliff Kendrick, who used to frequent Ford City Mall with his dad. ...

The agency hopes smaller refunds will discourage permit hoarding and put more reservations back into circulation for would-be visitors.