December 6, 2018 2 dead when wrong-way truck hits bus carrying Illinois girls basketball team A 72-year-old high school girl's basketball volunteer was among two people killed Wednesday night when a school bus collided head-on with a wayward truck on Interstate 74 in Illinois, officials said.
December 3, 2018 Illinois boy, 11, inspired by 'A Christmas Story' gets tongue stuck on frozen pole It didn't take a triple dog dare, but a boy in northern Illinois found out the hard way not to place his tongue on a frozen metal pole.
November 30, 2018 Good Samaritan gives pizza, shelter to students stranded in snowstorm Five students driving back to college after Thanksgiving break found themselves stranded in the middle of nowhere off a busy highway in Illinois amid severe winter weather only to be saved by a good Samaritan.
November 30, 2018 Chicago alderman expects to be vindicated after federal agents raid his offices The offices of a longtime Chicago alderman whose law firm formally represented President Donald Trump was raided by federal agents Thursday, federal officials said.
November 29, 2018 Feds raid office of Chicago alderman whose law firm represented Trump Federal agents Thursday raided two offices of a powerful Chicago alderman whose law firm represented President Trump for more than a decade, though it was not immediately clear whether the operation was related to the president.
November 28, 2018 'Broth of Legionella' remark about GOP colleague's kin gets Democrat in hot water in Illinois A Democratic state lawmaker in Illinois is facing calls to resign after saying Tuesday she wanted to mix a “broth of Legionella” bacteria to infect the "loved one" of her Republican colleague.
November 26, 2018 Midwest snowstorm cancels hundreds of flights as holiday weekend winds down A massive storm blanketed much of the central Midwest with snow Sunday, canceling hundreds of flights at airports in Chicago and Kansas City and forcing parts of some major highways to shut down as the Thanksgiving holiday weekend drew to a close.
November 21, 2018 Obama makes early Thanksgiving visit to Chicago food bank Former President Obama got down to work at a food bank in Chicago on Tuesday ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday and thanked the group on Twitter for letting him stop by.
November 21, 2018 Chicago cop, 28, who 'ran toward danger,' was slain 1 month shy of 1st wedding anniversary Officer Samuel Jimenez, the rookie Chicago cop who died in a shootout Monday night that left three others dead, including the suspect, always knew what he wanted to do with his life, his brother Antonio said Tuesday.
November 20, 2018 Chicago hospital shooting victim was planning wedding in June, 'just wanted to help people,' father says The pharmaceutical resident who stepped out of an elevator at a hospital on Chicago's South Side and into the middle of a gunman's deadly rampage was known for loving what she did and had been planning a wedding in June, her father said Tuesday.