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Chicago’s City Council passed a roughly $16 billion budget for 2026 — less than two weeks before the deadline — without certainty about whether Mayor Brandon Johnson will sign or veto the plan. The ...

The clock is winding down for your last chance to visit two iconic Chicago Christmas traditions for the 2025 holiday season. Monday, the Chicago Transit Authority's final holiday train of 2025 will be ...

The Chicago Bears entered Sunday night's game against the San Francisco 49ers hoping to stay alive for the No. 1 seed in the NFC. Things couldn't have started out any better for the Bears as they ...

A 34-year-old man was killed and three others were injured after being gunned down in Chicago early Sunday morning during an attack on a $320,000 Lamborghini SUV. The four victims were getting into a ...

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CHICAGO (WLS) -- Starting Monday, the CTA's historic State and Lake platform shut down for three years. It is a massive undertaking of a project that officials say is long overdue. Commuters are ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected President Donald Trump’s request to allow him to deploy the National Guard to Chicago to protect ICE agents, a significant and rare loss for the administration on ...

CHICAGO (WGN) — Six alleged Chicago gang members were federally indicted in a case involving 13 murders, armed robbery and drug trafficking. A federal grand jury recently indicted Dontae Harper, 29, ...

Bourbon maker Jim Beam is halting production at one of its distilleries in Kentucky for at least a year as the whiskey industry navigates tariffs from the Trump administration and slumping demand for ...

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CHICAGO (WGN) – A woman has died and a man was injured in a crash stemming from a shooting Saturday morning on the city’s South Side. Chicago police said the incident happened just after 8:20 a.m. in ...