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Israelis gathered on Wednesday to commemorate the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack that killed 1,200 people, saw 251 taken hostage, and sparked a devastating war in Gaza that has left much of the territory in ruins and its 2 million people living in dire conditions.
Republicans are entering the final month of the midterm campaign increasingly anxious that the $1 billion at their disposal may not be enough to fend off sweeping losses as the party reckons with President Donald Trump ‘s unpopularity, persistent cost concerns and the fallout from the war in Iran .
The White Sox vs. Cleveland Guardians AL Division Series game 3 at Rate Field on Wednesday is the hottest ticket in town.
Health officials in DuPage County have confirmed the county’s first West Nile virus-related death of 2026.
Police in a north suburb are investigating after masked men reportedly groped and exposed themselves to women in the area on Monday.
Fifty-five thousand runners from all over the world are arriving in Chicago for the Bank of America Chicago Marathon, which gets underway on Sunday.
Three friends of Nolan Wells, a Black college student who went missing from a Mississippi island during a Fourth of July celebration and was later found dead, are suing NFL Hall of Famer Terrell Owens for defamation.
A popular brand of e-bike was recalled because part of a breakable mechanism in the seat that poses a fall hazard, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said.
Charges were pending against multiple suspects who allegedly vandalized more than 20 scarecrows in a southwest Michigan community, authorities said.
A young boy was critically injured when he was shot on Tuesday afternoon in Chicago, police said.
Eva Marie Saint, the Oscar- and Emmy-winning star best known for playing a New Jersey dockworker’s grieving sister in the Elia Kazan drama “On the Waterfront” and an elegant government agent in the Alfred Hitchcock thriller “North by Northwest,” died Tuesday. She was 102.
A series of early morning break-ins Monday is forcing Chatham business owners to re-think their security operations and to take collective action.
The front lawn of an Indiana courthouse was torn up when a woman who was allegedly driving drunk decided to do donuts in the grass, authorities said.
At 46 years old, Gerardo Rodriguez Salazar was diagnosed with stage 4 colorectal cancer and told it was terminal.
A man was critically injured when he fell from a CTA platform and was struck by a train in Chicago’s West Loop neighborhood on Tuesday afternoon.
Chicago has earned a familiar honor once again, marking an impressive 10-year run, and it’s a distinction many residents won’t find surprising.
Official parking for the Chicago White Sox first playoff game against the Cleveland Guardians has sold out, the team has announced.
A woman reported to be in distress on the ground on the University of Illinois campus has died, officials said Tuesday.
After more than two decades in suburban Bolingbrook, IKEA is preparing to relocate to another Chicago suburb, where customers will encounter a different shopping experience.
Illinois’ largest homeowner’s insurance provider is getting ready to hike its rates by an average of 8%, company officials say.
Nearly a week after surviving Tennessee’s failed attempt to execute her for a 1995 murder, Christa Pike is conscious and speaking, her attorneys said in a statement on Tuesday.
Multiple lanes on the inbound Tri-State Tollway were blocked near 75 th Street after a car became trapped under a tanker truck Tuesday.
Barbed wire, yellow caution tape and “no trespassing” signs. Attorneys for the estate of Dolly Parton claim that Bryan Seaver, the late country music icon’s nephew, used these items to barricade his property in an attempt to avoid being served with a lawsuit accusing him of threatening to destroy Parton’s legacy .
Portillo’s revealed its latest limited-time dessert menu additions on Tuesday, and fans of a certain famous sandwich cookie are in for a treat.
Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike is awake and speaking at a hospital, her lawyers said Tuesday, six days after the state’s failed attempt to execute her by lethal injection left her unconscious and on a ventilator.
An Illinois high school football team was forced to postpone their homecoming game, and a catering business has been shut down, after dozens of players, coaches and parents were sickened by a team dinner hosted at their school cafeteria one day before they were set to play.
With the 2026 election less than a month away, Illinois election officials are reminding voters of a key change to the way mail-in ballots are accepted.
Tens of thousands of runners will soon hit Chicago streets for the annual Bank of America Chicago Marathon, but for those looking to watch the exciting race unfold live — or catch friends and family crossing the finish line — you don’t need to be on the course to do it.
The Chicago White Sox hadn’t won a playoff series in more than 20 years, but they’re on the precipice of doing so for a second time in this postseason.
Soap opera star Robert Kelker-Kelly has died, according to a Missouri medical examiner’s office. He was 62.
The Chicago Bears’ offense is getting plenty of attention this season, but their defense deserves flowers after a strong performance Sunday.
The Chicago White Sox are bringing a commanding 2-0 series lead to Rate Field as they face the Cleveland Guardians, and the occasion will absolutely be a historic one.
Five Chicago and one suburban pasta shop just ranked on Yelp’s first-ever list of Top 100 Pasta Places in the U.S., with one spot even cracking the top 20.
Checks worth $90 may be hitting some seniors’ bank accounts this month Did you get one?
President Donald Trump sparked backlash from local and state leaders in California after saying at a campaign rally that Iran can “take out” Los Angeles and San Diego as a “small price to pay for keeping the world safe.”
Plague had not been detected among close contacts of a worker in an anti-plague laboratory in Siberia who died last week, with 60% of the identified group tested so far, officials in Russia said Tuesday.
The pilot who tried to bring down an Israel-bound flight had been planning a 9/11-style attack by crashing into the country’s main airport in Tel Aviv, a Middle Eastern official has told NBC News.
It’s official: Skydance-owned Paramount completed its blockbuster $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery on Tuesday.
Could a tropical storm impact the weather Sunday for the 2026 Bank of America Chicago Marathon?
The White Sox return to Chicago just one win away from reaching the American League Championship Series for the first time in 21 years.
Francis Halzen won the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for his efforts to demystify a rare group of neutrinos, tiny cosmic particles that scientists believe offer clues to how the universe evolved.
Jim Bakker, who along with his first wife Tammy Faye built an evangelical empire around the hugely successful “The PTL Club” TV show, only to lose it all over a sex scandal and financial crimes, has died. He was 86.
A breast cancer survivor who underwent a double mastectomy has turned her own recovery into a mission to help other women.
The mother of the woman accused of stabbing a 7-year-old girl to death in East Chatham told NBC Chicago on Monday that her daughter needed “help” and expressed condolences to the victim’s family.
The Pentagon says President Donald Trump has approved the execution by firing squad of Nidal Hasan, the former Army major convicted in the 2009 mass shooting at Fort Hood.
An Illinois Lottery ticket turned into a $1 million payday for one lucky player in Chicago’s West Beverly neighborhood.
The Chicago White Sox bullpen once again held strong and the team’s offense did just enough in a 4-3 win over the Cleveland Guardians on Monday.
Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak is now the largest in the U.S. in three decades. On Monday, the state surpassed South Carolina’s outbreak from earlier this year, which topped out at 997.
Chicago Bears fans were thrilled to see the team’s emphatic win over the New York Jets on Sunday, but many were left wondering why they had seen so many ads around Texas’ contentious Senate race.
Robbery charges have been filed against a Chicago woman in connection with a shooting in the parking lot of Oakbrook Center Mall last week.
Chicago’s City Council is poised to approve the largest single payout for misconduct in the city’s history, all tied to disgraced former CPD detective Reynaldo Guevara.
The White House prohibited Politico on Monday from traveling on Air Force One with President Donald Trump as he heads to Nebraska for a campaign rally.
A 36-year-old father of four died unexpectedly after he collapsed while running a half marathon in Wisconsin over the weekend, according to reports.
As Americans grapple with record-high gas prices, Amazon is offering Prime members a little more relief at the pump just in time for the holiday travel season.
A Chicago mother is on a mission to make sure her son’s killing does not become an unsolved cold case.
A former Ohio music pastor and “American Idol” contestant has been sentenced to life without possibility of parole for killing his wife in their Dayton-area home earlier this year.
The 2026 Illinois elections are quickly approaching, and there are some key deadlines to know if you still haven’t registered to vote.
The death of a 28-year-old woman who worked in an anti-plague laboratory in Russia is raising concerns about what caused her illness.
The start of the NFL season hasn’t gone according to plan for a handful of teams.
We’re just weeks from the 2026 Illinois general election, and candidates are kicking their campaigns into high gear.
New details were revealed in court Monday on what happened when a woman fatally stabbed a 7-year-old girl she didn’t know while walking on a street on Chicago’s South Side over the weekend.
Coming off of two wins in a row, the Chicago Bears are hoping to make a statement against the Green Bay Packers, and the betting line for the game is showing something truly remarkable.
Voters wanting to cast ballots in the 2026 election in Indiana are running out of time to register to vote.
The Chicago White Sox will look to win a fourth straight playoff game and grab a stranglehold on the ALDS, and they’ve revealed their Game 2 lineup.
A Chicago-bound British Airways plane that departed London Monday made an emergency landing back at Heathrow Airport after a “technical issue,” with flight tracking sites showing the jet descending 27,000 feet in a matter of minutes.
The Chicago Bears had some drama around their starting quarterback in their game against the Jets, but there will not be any question heading into Sunday’s game against the Packers.
Check your freezers: A major recall of frozen blueberries due to E. coli concerns has expanded once again, with more bags recalled from Walmart and now Trader Joe’s grocery stores in more than two dozen states including Illinois.
NOTE: The video in the player above is from a previous story. Dennis Hastert, the nation’s longest-serving Republican House speaker, who helped turn much of President George W. Bush’s agenda into law before his own political legacy was forever fouled by allegations that he molested high school athletes when he was a…
The Supreme Court’s new term begins Monday with cases on climate change , religious rights and President Donald Trump’s crackdown on immigration high on the agenda.
PepsiCo has recalled thousands of cases of Gatorade distributed in 37 states, including Illinois, because the bottles have undeclared food colorings that could pose a health risk.
The death of a worker at an anti-plague laboratory in Russia has prompted officials to put at least one hospital facility under quarantine and nearly 200 people reportedly under medical observation as of Monday.
Major street closures will begin this week for the 2026 Bank of America Chicago Marathon .
More details could be revealed Monday as the Chicago woman charged with first-degree murder in the fatal stabbing of a 7-year-old girl in the city’s East Chatham neighborhood makes her first court appearance.
The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded Monday to three scientists working on the mechanisms the brain uses to switch on, or off, the activity of individual nerve cells.
Nuts are one of the most popular snack foods, and for good reason. They’re delicious, nutrient-dense and portable. Plus, there’s dozens of varieties to choose from.
A Cornell University student gave campus police leads in the alleged rape of Jane Doe in 2024 but expressed dismay over how the authorities handled the case.
One person was taken into police custody after a shooting in Michigan City, Indiana, left two people injured overnight, authorities said Sunday.
A Chicago woman was charged with first-degree murder after a 7-year-old girl was fatally stabbed in the city’s East Chatham neighborhood, authorities said.
Two restaurants in Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood were damaged in overnight burglaries, the businesses confirmed Sunday.
A celebration of Palestinian culture was met with tense protests in Bridgeview on Sunday.
Grieving family members gathered at a vigil to remember a 7-year-old girl who was fatally stabbed in what was believed to be a random attack in Chicago’s East Chatham neighborhood.
Early indications suggest the Flydubai co-pilot accused of attacking his captain and trying to seize control of an Israel-bound plane acted alone, rather than as part of a larger organization or on behalf of a foreign government, multiple U.S. officials briefed on the investigation and a former Israeli security…
The woman who alleges she was sexually assaulted by Cornell University fraternity members has received threats pressuring her to drop her lawsuit, her attorney said Sunday.
Chicago Bears head coach Ben Johnson was mum all week about the team’s starting quarterback this week, and his first playcall Sunday may have been a nod to that.
The 2026 Bank of America Chicago Marathon is right around the corner, and street closures will soon be underway for the big event.
President Donald Trump promised on Friday to give $90 rebate checks to offset premiums for millions of U.S. seniors on Medicare, his latest pledge to send money to Americans ahead of the midterm elections.
The Chicago Bears have released their inactives list for Sunday’s game against the New York Jets.
NOTE: The original version of this story reported the bicyclist being struck in the Loop. Chicago police have corrected the location of the incident
The Chicago area is going to continue through a run of extremely pleasant weather, with plenty of sunshine and consistently mild temperatures in coming days.
The Chicago Bears have placed offensive lineman Braxton Jones on injured reserve as he continues to deal with a knee injury.
An off-duty Chicago police officer shot two men during an altercation in the Little Village neighborhood Sunday morning.
The search has been suspended for six people aboard a plane that went missing off Nantucket over the weekend, the Coast Guard announced Sunday night.
Cavan Sullivan became the youngest player to score a goal in U.S. men’s national team history, fellow teenager Julian Hall added another goal, and the Americans cruised to a 3-0 victory over Mexico on Saturday night in an international friendly that was the 80th match between the rivals.
Two types of viral squishy toys sold nationwide were recalled this week because of a potentially deadly hazard to children, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said.
Families of homicide victims came together for a day of healing and remembrance on Chicago’s Near West Side on Saturday.
A west suburb of Chicago transformed into a Hollywood set this week for the filming of a Netflix movie set to release next year that is based on a viral and best-settling book.
Authorities identified the 7-year-old girl who died after she was stabbed several times while walking on a sidewalk in Chicago on Saturday.
A plume of dark smoke could be seen billowing from a building in River North on Saturday, video showed.
President Donald Trump is promising more payments to voters just ahead of the Nov. 3 midterm elections — this time, to more than 20 million seniors, giving them $90 each to help pay for Medicare premiums.
Two suspects are in police custody after a man visiting from upstate New York with his wife was shot during an attempted robbery while in a Streeterville parking garage Friday evening.