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CHICAGO — With one month left in the year, Chicago is on track to have the lowest number of annual murders in more than a decade. Newly released crime numbers show 390 people were murdered through the ...

Styx's Tommy Shaw says he remembers getting “goose pimples” the first time he heard a Chicago record. “I couldn’t believe there was music that elaborate and soulful and it was still rock,” the ...

Chicago and Styx will tour together next summer starting in July. The Windy Cities Tour - All The Hits…Your Kind of Tour is set to launch July 13 in West Palm Beach, Florida and will continue through ...

CHICAGO — The Chicago holiday season kicked off Friday downtown with the annual tree lighting ceremony. The festivities started at 5 p.m. at Millennium Park with performances by DJ Mike P and Mara ...

Property taxes in the Windy City are freezing over, and one Chicago city leader is making a plea for brands and businesses to bring back their headquarters and alleviate homeowners’ frostbite. "The ...

Democratic Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson erupted at a reporter on Friday after they used the term "illegal aliens" during a press briefing, slamming the phrase as "racist" and "nasty." In a video ...

Looming over the tapestry of flags and homemade signs undulating across the Grant Park lawn Saturday were two that stood higher than the rest. Robert Ryan, 61, had meticulously fashioned both a “NO ...

Chicago's Rogers Park community remained vigilant after reports of federal agents near a Catholic church during Sunday mass. A neighbor, who wished only to be called by her first name, shared cell ...

Chicago ensured that a remarkable tradition continues with their first confirmed dates of 2026. They have toured every year since the group was founded in the late '60s. Keyboardist Robert Lamm, ...

The move, condemned by Illinois officials, appeared to be part of the Trump administration’s aim of using the government shutdown as leverage. By Julie Bosman Reporting from Chicago Two long-planned ...