Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has announced the nomination of Michael R. Merchant to head the Chicago Housing Authority, one day after the previous housing authority chief's resignation was made public.
A couple from Chicago visiting western Michigan to celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary helped rescue an Ohio woman in a wheelchair who fell into cold Lake Michigan.
Opening arguments were under way in the trial of a Chicago man accused of using a baseball bat to attack two young women in 2010 as they walked home after a night of dancing.
A small eastern Illinois community is selling off about a dozen lots at $1 each, hoping to convince people to relocate to Vermillion County from Chicago.
Models walked the runway in looks created by Chicago designers. They used professionals from fields -- such as culinary and visual artists -- as muses.
A man wanted in two sex assaults and home invasions that occurred just hours apart on the city's South Side last week is now in police custody, officials said.
For the past 143 years, the West Town neighborhood has been home to a number of immigrant populations, from Germans and Ukrainians, to what is now a primarily Latino community.
Police investigating a Monday night shooting on the Northwest Side said they have few promising leads because the "intoxicated" victim told officers that he was too drunk to remember how he was injured.
Federal government workers in the Chicago area, along with labor and community leaders, planned a rally at noon Tuesday to call for an end to the government shut down.
Some residents around Chicago's O'Hare International Airport who were already concerned about noise levels are worried about the impact of a new runway expected to open this week.
Die-hard music lovers, casual fans and globe-trotting tourists readily embrace Chicago as the home of the blues, spurred in large part by the Great Migration northward of Southern blacks in the early and mid-20th century.