Illinois

Authorities in suburban Chicago have reunited a young boy with his grandparents after he was found alone in the aftermath of a mass shooting at a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park.

The freshman congresswoman, who was among those who voted to overturn the results of the 2020 election, previously came under criticism for quoting Adolf Hitler.

Police said coworkers said Charles McKnight had been working the overnight shift and had been confronted by coworkers after he had robbed two of them of a watch and a wallet at gunpoint. They argued, and police said McKnight pulled out a handgun and shot three of them.

Three people were shot, one fatally, at the WeatherTech facility in Bolingbrook Saturday morning.

Chicago police officers will no longer be allowed to chase people on foot simply because they run away or they’ve committed minor offenses, the department said Tuesday, more than a year after two foot pursuits ended with officers fatally shooting a 13-year-old boy and 22-year-old man.

A Round Lake Beach father who was charged with drowning his three young children left a note to his wife at the crime scene reading, "If I can’t have them neither can you," prosecutors said Wednesday.

Dramatic video captured by a dashcam in Massac County, Illinois, shows the moment a sheriff’s deputy and a highway worker saved a man as he tried to jump off a bridge.

Seneca is a small town located about an hour west of Chicago in LaSalle and Grundy counties.

The robot is just a half-millimeter wide and can fit on the tip of a ballpoint pen.

Chicago Police have released surveillance pictures of a man wanted for setting a man on fire downtown.

Two people were killed and at least seven others were wounded in a mass shooting when a fight broke out near a McDonald’s on the Near North Side Thursday night.

The sale and possession of "ghost guns" in Illinois became illegal Wednesday after Gov.J.B. Pritzker signed a bill aimed at eliminating the unserialized firearms.

Marion Richardson was arrested in the grass at Millennium Park by officers who were nearby, and allegedly told them, "You guys ain’t going do nothing anyways. A hundred (racial slur) walking towards me. What am I supposed to do? You all just sitting there, bro."

Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced Bally's as her selection to become the site of Chicago's first casino on Thursday.

A California man has been charged after police say he opened an emergency exit of a plane on the runway at O’Hare International Airport and slid down the wing early Thursday.

A school community in south suburban Tinley Park is mourning Monday after the murder of a student last weekend.

A man was taken into custody Monday after leading police on a chase in a stolen Chicago ambulance.

Inside the wall was a crumpled McDonald’s bag with the original 1950s logo featuring Speedee, the franchise’s original mascot.