University of Chicago college student Austin Hudson-LaPore was last seen Wednesday. His family is asking anyone who may have information to please call police.
The organizers of a dance music festival taking place in Joliet over Memorial Day weekend are promising to turn down the volume after Friday night's show drew a lot of complaints.
Many people are wondering what can be done to protect yourself from a tornado like the one that leveled Moore, Oklahoma. Using reinforcement in building construction is one solution.
James Malecek, 19, pleaded not guilty in the beating death of Kevin Kennelly, 17, who died during a fight on a Northwest Indiana beach over the Fourth of July weekend.
Nearly 140 women who were denied jobs as Chicago firefighters will be able to reapply Monday after they reached a tentative settlement with the city in a federal class-action lawsuit.
The City of Chicago is offering non-profit organizations a break on their water bills based on the size of their assets. However, a group of religious leaders want water to be free -- as it was decades-- for all non-profits.
About 75 miles southwest of Chicago, much of Marseilles, Illinois, resembles a scrapyard: piles of debris are taller than people and homes are literally a shell of their former selves.
Students protested outside Lane Tech High School Friday after Chicago Public Schools' CEO decided to pull the graphic novel Persepolis from classrooms.
Airline passengers will be allowed to carry small knives, souvenir baseball bats, golf clubs and other sports equipment onto planes beginning April 25th, the Transportation Security Administration announced.
A major black market bust of illegal cigarettes is fueling concern that the underground tobacco market will get even worse when the Cook County tax on a pack of cigarettes goes up by $1 Friday.
Guns are banned on public transportation in the Chicago area, but the National Rifle Association is backing the idea of riders carrying weapons in trains and buses.
The Cook County Sheriff's Office says it has found 51 unprocessed sexual assault kits in the evidence room at the Robbins Police Department in south suburban Chicago.
For the first time we're hearing from the mother of the teenage student also wounded in the shooting that took the life of 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton.