The Latest Breaking News from Chicago

Building ice going into the holidays leads this sprawling, raw-file Midwest Fishing Report, but there’s also ongoing perch fishing on the Chicago lakefront.

C3 Presents, which runs Lollapalooza, has donated $500,000 to the Chicago Park District.

The Civilian Office of Police Accountability recommended the detective be fired, but he told the agency he planned to retire in light of the allegations.

The 1st District officer was found Tuesday morning in a home on the West Side, according to a police spokesman.

A massive winter storm is winding across the central U.S., threatening to disrupt air traffic during the busy holiday season, rake Chicago with a blizzard and send an arctic blast as far south as Texas and the Gulf of Mexico.

Worst conditions to develop Thursday night, with a possible blizzard and dangerously low temperatures expected by Friday, the National Weather Service warned.

Welcome to the Tuesday, December 20, Brew. 

Six flights – from Boston, Chicago, Denver, Nashville, New York JFK and Washington DC – have been cancelled outright

A man was sitting in a car in the 2000 block of West Chicago Avenue when he was shot in the head, police said.

A federal judge on Monday sentenced a Burr Ridge, Illinois, businessman to nearly five years in federal prison for swindling $2.6 million from hospitals seeking coveted protective gear in the traumatic early days of the COVID-19 pandemic and blowing much of it on credit cards and luxury cars.

CHICAGO — More than 100 Benito Juarez high school students joined a walkout midday Monday on the school’s first day of classes since four teens were shot and two were killed Friday.