Right now, cocaine seems to be coming back,'? says Leah Law, a DEA supervisory chemist. Margarito Flores, once Chicago's biggest drug trafficker, told the Sun-Times: '?There's a shift toward powder ... Read More

A Chicago man was charged in connection with a crash that left a woman dead and two others injured last year in the Woodlawn neighborhood. Read More

CDOT said the bridge that now carries Chicago Avenue from the Near North Side to River West is to be replaced with a permanent tie-arch bridge. Read More

Warby Parker will open the first location of their shop-in-shop collaboration with Target in a Chicago suburb Saturday. The Willowbrook Target, located at 7601 Kingery Highway, will be home to the ... Read More

A car crashed through the front of Portillo's restaurant in Oswego, a suburb of Chicago, around lunchtime Wednesday, authorities said. Read More

The Brookfield Zoo Chicago is home to more than ten white-bellied pangolins, an imperiled animal that suffers from high poaching rates. Read More

The truck sustained major front-end damage, and two cars were demolished. One of the cars had a white sheet over it, indicating that someone inside had died. Read More

Multiple cars and a semi-tractor trailer were involved in a catastrophic crash at the junction of I-80 / 94 and Illinois Route 394 in the south Chicago suburb of Lansing. Read More

A 19-year-old woman and 14-year-old boy were killed in a three-vehicle crash early Sunday in Chicago's northwest suburbs. Read More

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The southbound lanes of Interstate 57 have reopened after a person was fatally hit by a vehicle early Sunday morning in the south suburbs. The crash happened shortly after 4 a.m. near Vollmer Road in ... Read More

Illinois State Police said multiple people were hurt in a crash on the Dan Ryan Expressway on Sunday. ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24 / 7. Click here to watch The crash happened on the southbound lanes ... Read More

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It happened in the 2100 block of Irving Park Road in Hanover Park. The windows of a Michoacana ice cream shop and a jewelry store were damaged due to the crash. A fire official told CBS News Chicago ... Read More

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All southbound lanes of I-57 were shut down on Sunday morning due to a deadly crash, police said.ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24 / 7. Click here to watchThe crash happened at about 4:07 a.m. north of ... Read More

A 35-year-old man has been identified as the victim of a hit-and-run crash, local officials said.ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24 / 7. Click here to watchThe crash happened on Saturday at about 2:30 a.m ... Read More

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Funnel clouds were reported Friday morning in Illinois and there was a Flood Warning for parts of the Chicago area into the evening. Read More

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Torrential rains nearing 5 inches in just a few hours led to flash flooding across parts of Chicago on Friday afternoon, snarling both traffic on the ground and in the air. Read More

Footage from residents showed heavy flooding on Harlem Avenue in Summit and on Drake Avenue in Chicago's Brighton Park neighborhood. Video from a viewer in Darien showed heavy rainfall and flooded ... Read More

Man arrested by U.S. Marshals U.S. Marshals have arrested a man released under Illinois' SAFE-T Act after he was accused of trying to kill two Chicago police officers. CWB Chicago reports that ... Read More

The summer of traffic nightmares is set to jump into overdrive early next month as the city works to replace the Chicago Avenue bridge over the river. Why it matters: The massive project will divert ... Read More