Emergency officials ordered what turned out to be a relatively brief evacuation after a freight train derailed in suburban Chicago on Thursday. The Canadian National Railway train derailed in the ... Read More

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Emergency officials have ordered an evacuation after a freight train derailed in suburban Chicago. WGN-TV reports the train derailed in the village of Matteson on Thursday morning. Read More

Matteson is a village in Cook County, Illinois, about 30 miles south of downtown Chicago. This is a developing story. Please check back for updates. Minyvonne Burke is a senior breaking news reporter for NBC News. Read More

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According to an ABC7 Chicago report, a Canadian National Railway train has derailed in Matteson, Illinois. No injuries were immediately ... Canadian National Railway shares have an all-time high of ... Read More

The National Weather Service has confirmed at least four tornadoes touched down in Chicago's western suburbs on Saturday, with straight-line winds also causing significant damage in the area. Read More

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Illinois State Police said troopers responded to a two-vehicle crash on eastbound I-290 at Kostner around 230 a.m. A driver and passenger in one of the vehicles were taken to an area hospital with ... Read More

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Two people were injured in a crash that shut down all lanes of the Eisenhower Expressway Wednesday morning on Chicago's West Side.Two vehicles crashed around 2:32 a.m. in the inbound lanes of ... Read More

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A serious crash on the Eisenhower Expressway has shut down all lanes on I-290 inbound since around 3 a.m. Wednesday. Read more: Latest Chicago news headlines Traffic is being diverted off ... Read More

Police said the shooting happened in the Washington Heights neighborhood's 9200-block of South Green Street at about 3 p.m. An 18-year-old man was inside a vehicle when someone shot him multiple times ... Read More

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Three people were injured in a crash on Interstate 57 on Chicago's South Side on Tuesday night, Illinois State Police said. ISP said the four-vehicle crash happened on the ramp to ... Read More

Flooding and extreme heat are posing a threat to the Midwest this week, including in Chicago, and the impacts will be felt by area residents in a wide variety of ways. Read More

A series of thunderstorms brought torrential rains and damaging winds to the Chicago area late Saturday and into Sunday morning, dumping as much as five inches of rain and downing large tree branches ... Read More

A total of 4.75 inches of rain fell in Wauconda, and flooding was reported in Lake County, Illinois, and Kane County. Two vehicles were submerged at Route 176 and Route 41 in Lake County, though there ... Read More

Stormy weather moved into the Chicago area late Saturday, bringing fierce winds, downpours and flooding in portions of the northern suburbs. Read More

Saturday's forecast calls for near record-high temperatures and severe storms. The record-high temperature for June 22 is 97 degrees. Temperatures are expected to reach a high of 96 Saturday. Much of ... Read More

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A few years ago, Pekau hoped that the Chicago Southland Interstate Alliance of Tinley Park, Mokena and Orland Park was going to make big strides on large properties near Interstate 80. It's not ... Read More

Authorities on Thursday identified the girl as Sarina Vootkur, 16. The collision happened on a lake in the Chicago suburbs Tuesday evening. Read More

A 16-year-old girl from Lake Forest and a 13-year-old girl from the Chicago area were both killed when their jet ski collided with a boat on an Illinois lake. Read More

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Illinois State Police said automated license plate readers have been a game changer for investigating shootings on expressways and interstates. State police released new data ... Read More