A suburban woman was found dead after her husband saw a man he believed to be her ex-husband chasing her into their garage on an in-home camera, police said. Around 1:10 p.m., police were dispatched to the 400 block of Valentine Way in Oswego after a man called authorities and said he believed his wife was in danger after seeing a man he believed to be ...

The Chicago area has been dealing with plenty of wintry conditions, but another round of snow chances could emerge in coming days. While highs are expected to remain in the teens on Thursday under sunny skies, a change could be on the way, with bands of lake-effect snow impacting the region over multiple days and a clipper system swinging through the ...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said Wednesday that the company would begin phasing out its Model S and Model X electric vehicles this year and retool a California factory to produce humanoid robots instead. The announcement signals an end of an era. The two vehicles introduced in 2012 and 2015, respectively helped to move electric cars from the consumer fringe ...

Large crowds of commuters trying to get home amid brutally cold weather in Chicago crowded Union Station after a second day of rush hour train delays and cancellations. The apology followed two consecutive afternoons of train service disruptions on the BNSF, the train line that services the western suburbs. Video and photos taken at Union Station ...

Video shows Alex Pretti interacting with federal agents in Minneapolis on Jan. 13, a little over a week before Border Patrol agents shot and killed him. The video was recorded by The News Movement, which said it responded to a tip about agents blocking the street at the intersection of East 36th Street and Park Avenue in Minneapolis shortly after 10 ...

Bill Belichick will not be a first-ballot Hall of Famer, and his former players are not happy about it. The former New England Patriots coach reportedly fell short of being enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility despite winning six Super Bowls. Tom Brady and Rob Gronkowski, two former Patriots who themselves ...

Suspects are facing charges in a brazen scheme to thwart an Indiana court case, tamper with witnesses and kill a judge and his wife, according to prosecutors in Lafayette. If the plot had succeeded, a witness would have been paid $10,000 for her silence, and a veteran Indiana judge and his wife would be dead, killed by a shotgun blast through their front ...

A suburban high school has transformed a small storage closet into a room of possibilities for students in need of a helping hand. It’s called the Braves Closet, and it’s a new initiative at Bremen High School in Midlothian that provides free clothing and personal hygiene items to students at the school. It came into fruition because we always ...

A suburban police department is seeking support on a referendum to help pay for a new $60 million dollar police station. Officials said the building at 20 Police Plaza first opened in 1915. The last renovation was about twenty years ago. The deputy chief said theyre in desperate need of a new facility to keep up with modern policing operations and ...

A sweeping federal law passed last year could have impacts on 2025 tax returns for millions of American taxpayers. The big, beautiful bill introduced a host of changes to the U.S. tax code, some of which went into effect for returns filed for tax year 2025, according to the IRS and other agencies. Here are some of the highlights of the bill, which ...

Throughout the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, the U.S. mens hockey team received telegrams from fans from across the country telegrams they would then paste to the wall on the way onto the rink. As Team USA prepared to play the Soviet Union in the semifinals, a game in which the Americans were considered big underdogs, the players found ...

Horrifying details emerged in court after authorities said a 30-year-old pregnant woman was stabbed and murdered during what officials believe was a suburban Facebook Marketplace exchange turned deadly. Prosecutors on Wednesday revealed what they said happened before and after Eliza Morales was brutally stabbed and her building set on fire in Downers ...

Figure skating, the oldest sport in the Winter Olympic Games, has a rich history that extends beyond the Winter Olympics. It first appeared in the Summer Games in London in 1908 and again at the 1920 Games in Antwerp. Until 1972, the sport included only mens and womens singles and pairs events. Ice dance was introduced to the Olympic program in 1976. ...

There are many ways to construct a championship-caliber roster, and the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks are proof of that. The two teams that will clash in Super Bowl LX on Feb. 8 in Santa Clara have taken very different paths to the doorstep of football immortality. The Patriots have built a lot of their team through free agency, but they ...

The snow moon will rise in the skies over Chicago to kick off the month of February, but there is another celestial show looming this winter. The full moon will take place on Sunday, according to NASA, and its title as a snow moon is well-earned after the wintry weather the Chicago area has experienced in recent weeks. According to Royal Museums ...

Two federal officers fired their guns duringAlex Prettis fatal shooting, according to an initial review by the Department of Homeland Security obtained by NBC News. Both agents were placed on administrative leave, according to DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin. MS Now was first to report that detail. The preliminary report, from a Customs and Border ...

Indiana lawmakers have taken another step toward trying to convince the Chicago Bears to construct a new stadium in the state. Indianas Senate passed SB 27 on Wednesday, officially establishing the Northwest Indiana Stadium Authority and tasking it with acquiring land and financing the construction of a sports stadium, potentially for the Bears as they ...

A suspect has been arrested and faces first-degree murder charges in the shooting deaths of a suburban Joliet mother and her 4-year-old son. According to a press release from Joliet police, 29-year-old Joseph Johnson is facing six counts of first-degree murder in the shooting, which occurred on Sunday in the backyard of a home near the intersection of ...

A new Lurie Children’s pediatric hospital is coming to the western suburbs. According to a press release, a Lurie Children’s is planning a “community-based pediatric hospital” in suburban Downers Grove. The proposed low-acuity hospital, officials said, will “bedesigned to meet the needs of a growing population of families in the region.” ...

Temperatures outside are still downright frigid, but there are hints of spring in the air even as the mercury stays well below normal. Chicago-area residents can be forgiven for feeling like spring is still an eternity away, but the reality is that its approaching quickly and were hitting some key milestones on the path to warmer weather. Tuesday was ...

A new music festival is coming to Chicago this May with a lineup that spans both iconic artists from the early 2000s like Juvenile, Shaggy and Monica, and popular House and R&B DJs including Kaytranada. The inaugural Forever Mine Music Festival will take place May 23 and 24 at Union Park in the West Loop, according to organizers. The festival will be ...

This year will be a busy one in Illinois politics, and there are some massive races up and down the ballot this spring. The upcoming primary will determine the Democratic and Republican contenders for a  host of offices, including U.S. Senate, Illinois governor and many more. So when is the primary election? Which offices are on the ballot and which ...

As the Windy City celebrates the 40th anniversary of the Chicago Bears Super Bowl XX triumph, an iconic piece of memorabilia from that game is up for auction. Mike Ditka, whose brash attitude helped inspire the team and its fans during that Super Bowl-winning 1985 season, became well-known for his distinctive sweater vest that he would wear during games, ...

More than a dozen grocery stores across Illinois will soon close as Amazon shutters all of its Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh locations. The online retailer said Tuesday in a blog post that it plans to instead focus on grocery delivery, Whole Foods Market and a new supersized store concept. While weve seen encouraging signals in our Amazon-branded ...

The keepers of the Doomsday Clock on Tuesday moved the symbolic countdown to 85 seconds till midnight and warned that the world has never been closer to destruction on the metaphorical timepiece. But what is the “Doomsday Clock” and what happens when it hits midnight? What is the Doomsday Clock? The Doomsday Clock is a visual representation of ...