Voters in Illinois will head to the polls today to cast their ballots in statewide and countywide races. Also up for grabs in Illinois are 17 seats in the U.S. Congress and a rare open U.S. Senate ...

WTTW News visited the 18th Street railyard to see the behind-the-scenes work involved in transforming Metra trains for the holiday season. This year will mark Metra’s fifth year of holiday train rides ...

Last month, the DOJ announced plans to send election monitors to polling places around the country. Meanwhile, rumors are swirling about the possibility of immigration or other federal agents showing ...

On Saturday, the maternity ward at Roseland Community Hospital, a safety-net hospital on Chicago’s Far South Side, shut its doors.

The former head of Chicago’s FBI field office claims he was forced into retirement and used as a “scapegoat” by top federal prosecutor Andrew Boutros to cover “for his own misconduct” and that of the ...

Chicago’s U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros has been ordered to appear before a federal judge later this month to testify under oath about the collapse of the “Broadview Six” prosecution and whether his ...

The Clark family of Kane County has donated its nearly 50-foot-tall Norway spruce to Chicago for the city’s holiday display in the hopes it will bring “joy and wonder to millions." ...

The peak came on Oct. 12, when Chicago set a daily record high temperature of 88 degrees. In all, the temperature topped 60 degrees on 28 days out of 31, tying the record for most 60-degree days in ...

Annette Johnson, a current member and former president of the East Aurora School District 131 Board of Education, is facing ...