Illinois

A lucky "Home Alone" fan will get the chance to spend the night in the iconic Chicago-area house, which includes all the '90s junk food their heart desires.

Two brothers arrested for an alleged attack on Jussie Smollett told Chicago police how the ex-"Empire" actor orchestrated the hoax, telling them via text message to meet him "on the low," paying for supplies and holding a "dry run" in downtown Chicago, the lead investigator testified Tuesday.

An Illinois family whose loved one was "desperately ill" and hospitalized earlier this month with COVID-19 says he's now home and doing well after a judge had to order a Naperville hospital to treat him with Ivermectin.

A jury has been seated in the trial of former "Empire" star Jussie Smollett, who is accused of staging a hoax nearly three years ago where he was the alleged victim of a racist, anti-gay attack in Chicago.

Ring-tailed lemurs at the Brookfield Zoo in Illinois were treated to a Thanksgiving feast and even a “football game” inside their enclosure.

Former employees of Chicago’s Parlor Pizza Bar restaurants say they were overworked and mistreated and that they were told to put customers of color in a special section.

News of its impending final closure marks the end of an era for some local observers.

A man shot and killed one of two gunmen during a confrontation outside his home Wednesday night in the Lake View neighborhood.

Instead of handing his things over, the elderly man pulled out a gun and shot the robber in the head and chest. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Defrocked priest and convicted child molester Daniel McCormack has been released from state custody. 

Heather Mack and Tommy Schaefer are charged with conspiring to kill Mack’s mother, Sheila von Wiese-Mack, in a federal indictment filed in 2017 and briefly unsealed Wednesday in Chicago’s federal court.

An inmate being wheeled into a courthouse wrestled a gun from a corrections officer in Illinois before being shot by another officer.

A Logan Square man was so angry a passerby asked his girlfriend if she needed help while the two were fighting, he shot and killed him, Cook County prosecutors said Thursday.

Illinois law has for more than four decades protected those who oppose providing or receiving medical treatment because of their religious beliefs. Well now, that may be changing.

A North Carolina man who moved to Chicago was one of the victims of John Wayne Gacy, who was convicted of killing 33 young men and boys in the 1970s, authorities said Monday.

HEARTBREAKING: 23-year-old Melanie Yates was inside her suburban home Sunday night reading the Bible to her 7-month-old daughter when she was struck by a stray bullet. She later died at the hospital.

Indiana officials are making an informal pitch to recruit Chicago police officers who are disgruntled with the city's vaccination mandate.

"Does anybody really think this is about stopping the spread?" said FOP President John Catanzara. "This is all about total control by this mayor. She is a miserable human being."

NO RETIREMENT BENEFITS? Chicago's top cop David Brown is threatening to deny retirement benefits to those who choose to retire from the job rather than comply with the city's COVID-19 vaccination policy, according to local reports.