For a $15 donation a Madagascar hissing cockroach can be named. The names will appear on a naming board displayed outside the Hamill Family Play Zoo. Names must be submitted by 5 p.m. on Feb. 5.

The passenger was attacked after asking three males to stop smoking on a Red Line train about 2:30 a.m. Jan. 2 in the 100 block of West 69th Street, Chicago police said.

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After a 40-year career at ABC7, investigative reporter Chuck Goudie has left the Chicago station but says he’s not done with television. “I am weighing several TV opportunities,” Goudie said in an ...

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said, "Illinois is going to continue to be a beacon of policies that are antithetical to the retrograde policies of a Trump administration.” ...

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After weeks of preparation by Chicago's immigrant communities, and a weekend full of fear amid multiple reports that the city would serve as the first major raid, there were no reports of immigration ...

Mary Jane Alano, 88, died about 12:40 p.m. Monday in the first block of Moorings Drive, the Cook County medical examiner's office said. Her death was ruled an accident.

Tuesday is the coldest day so far this winter, but it was far from a record. The coldest temperature on the books for Jan. 21 was 22 degrees below zero in 1984.