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An 87-year-old grandmother took on billionaire Donald Trump. And on Thursday - she lost. More>>
Police are warning Brighton Park and McKinley Park residents of an increase in armed robberies this month in the South Side neighborhoods. More>>
The Senate has approved a plan that would ban the use of cell phones while driving. More>>
A cell phone video posted online reportedly shows a Dunbar Vocational Career Academy staff member pushing a female student down the stairs. More>>
Thieves have struck a Streeterville area construction site a handful of times over the past week, taking tools and construction materials, police said. More>>
The Obama administration has picked a private attorney and former federal prosecutor to head the U.S. attorney's office in Chicago, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin announced Thursday. More>>
A Wisconsin high school senior is this year's winner of Google's annual "Doodle 4 Google" contest. More>>
Six elementary students were taken to hospitals as a precautionary measure after the inflatable playground equipment they were enjoying at a northwest suburban school tipped over. More>>
BREAKING UPDATE: The jury reached a verdict in the Donald Trump condo trial on Thursday afternoon. The verdict will be read at 2:15 p.m. and the Dirksen Federal Building. More>>
Things are going to be very busy at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport this weekend. Many travelers will also hit the roads for Memorial Day, and they'll pay the price at the pump. More>>
Illinois legislation allowing public possession of concealed guns has passed the House Judiciary Committee. It was a compromise backed by Speaker Michael Madigan. More>>
Antwone Price had just moved into a new house in the south suburbs, and he was talking about finally marrying the woman he'd been with for several years — the woman with whom he shared a baby girl. More>>
A 25-year-old man has been cited for driving the wrong way on the Chicago Skyway after a head-on crash with a pickup truck Thursday morning that sent four people to hospitals. More>>
Mayor Emanuel spoke out for the first time since Chicago's historic school vote on Thursday, in a one-on-one interview with FOX 32 Political Editor Mike Flannery. The district voted to close 50 schools.
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Solemn Oath Brewery in Naperville is one of the hottest local breweries in the area, and is featured in the Illinois Craft Brewers Guild's Chicago Craft Beer Week 2013.
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Enter the DNA diet; a diet plan said to be tailored to your genetic response to food and exercise. More>>
Imagine your car sinking. What do you do? How do you get out? You only have seconds to react. More>>
Three schools in three different cities perform a live concert, streaming online for the world to see. More>>
Parents at Manierre on the North Side are pleased that their school will remain open. More>>
A 19-year-old former student at Glenbard East High School in Lombard has been charged with planning to commit an act of violence at the school. More>>
The Chicago Board of Education made its final decision Wednesday afternoon - to close 48 Chicago Public Schools in June, with one school delayed a year and to save five others. More>>
Illinois public schools that teach sex education will have to include information about contraception and sexually transmitted diseases instead of a curriculum focused on abstinence. More>>
Students at a Wilmette school are breaking records, but it has nothing to do with academics. More>>
Jurors have withdrawn to begin deliberations about whether Donald Trump cheated an 87-year-old who claims the "Apprentice" star cheated her in property deal. More>>
Police are looking for a man who tried to lure two teenage boys to a car this month on the Southwest Side. More>>
Legislation increasing the speed limit on interstate highways in Illinois to 70 mph is headed to Gov. Pat Quinn. More>>
The Will County Courts website is suffering from a hack attack, the Herald-News is reporting. More>>
Police are looking for a man who tried to lure two teenage boys to a car this month on the Southwest Side. More>>
Protesters of Mayor Rahm Emmanuel's plan to close dozens of city schools have been removed from a school board meeting in Chicago and from the State Capitol in Springfield. More>>
A woman was reportedly hospitalized after being rescued from the Chicago River near the Michigan Avenue bridge Wednesday morning. More>>
A 19-year-old former student at Glenbard East High School in Lombard has been charged with planning to commit an act of violence at the school, DuPage County prosecutors announced Wednesday. More>>
Though at least five ambulances and Fire Department personnel were dispatched to Midway Airport when a 737 reported a cracked windshield, the plane landed safely Wednesday morning. More>>
By SCOTT MAYEROWITZ AP Business Writer It's going to be another busy Memorial Day weekend on the nation's highways. More>>
A one-of-a-kind Chicago Public School is doing very well amid the controversy surrounding CPS closures, and the final Chicago Board of Education vote on the plan scheduled for Wednesday. More>>
A 16-year-old boy was fatally shot in the South Side Back of the Yards neighborhood Tuesday evening. More>>
State Rep. Lou Lang abruptly and surprisingly ended his sponsorship and potential future involvement in gambling-expansion legislation Tuesday.
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Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Tuesday he'll take his political lumps for his controversial school-closing plan. More>>
A woman robbed a Lake View bank Tuesday afternoon on the city's North Side. More>>
Illinois Sen. Donne Trotter has apologized for remarks that compared a member of Gov. Pat Quinn's cabinet to a Nazi. More>>
U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk is supporting Penny Pritzker as President Barack Obama's choice for commerce secretary. More>>
Illinois' congressional delegation has asked President Obama to add 16 Illinois counties to the list of those eligible to receive disaster aid after last month's flooding. More>>
Allergy season runs from April through October and for weeks already, pollen counts have been high in the Chicago area. More>>
In Englewood, Altgeld Elementary is shutting down, but staying open. Wentworth Elementary is moving there and taking over, making everyone unhappy about something. More>>
Jenn Gibbons embarked on a two month trip around the perimeter of Lake Michigan to raise money for the non-profit organization she founded for breast cancer survivors called Recovery on Water, or ROW. More>>
A northwest suburban day care worker who is in prison for murdering a toddler is getting some support as she appeals her case. More>>
Members of the Board of Education will likely vote Wednesday to shut down dozens of schools, but sources tell FOX 32 News that at least a few on a list of 54 proposed closings will likely be spared. More>>
A Schaumburg Village Trustee and his wife are recovering from injuries they sustained in the tornado. More>>
Emergency crews searched the broken remnants of Moore, Okla. for survivors of a tornado that flattened homes and demolished an elementary school. At least 24 people were killed, including at least nine children. More>>
Police are looking for man who inappropriately touched a woman at a South Loop CTA station Tuesday morning. More>>
Testimony has concluded at a civil trial in Chicago pitting an 87-year-old investor against "Apprentice" host Donald Trump. More>>
A man impersonating a police officer pulled over a northwest suburban student as she was drove to school Monday, searching her car before letting her leave, Pioneer Press is reporting. More>>
People in Aurora are voicing their concerns about what children will be reading next year. More>>
Rescue crews aren't the only ones heading to help tornado victims in Oklahoma. Addison's Lutheran Church Charities sent ten comfort dogs to Moore on Tuesday, to help console victims. More>>
A Jacksonville man has pleaded guilty to fatally stabbing a Chicago fan at a popular waterfront shopping area before a Bears/Jaguars football game last fall. More>>
Police are warning Loop train riders about a recent increase in robberies on CTA trains and platforms. More>>
The legal woes of embattled rapper Chief Keef continue. He was charged with disorderly conduct on Monday, in the suburbs of Atlanta. More>>
A Moore resident thought her dog did not survive the tornado that devastated the Oklahoma City suburb. But miracles do happen. More>>
Police are asking for help to identify the body of woman or teen girl found strangled and badly burned in a Northwest Side Avondale neighborhood Dumpster Sunday night. More>>
Every time a tornado makes news, the local public cannot help but think about what happened in this area, back in 1967. A destructive storm system hit the southwest suburbs 46 years ago. More>>
A shooting near Old Orchard Mall Friday night was "not a random act," Skokie police said at a village board meeting Monday. More>>
Another protest of the Chicago Public School closings is planned for Tuesday in advance of Wednesday's school board vote on school closings. More>>
Whatever happened to millionaire candy heiress Helen Brach? More than 35 years later, it remains one of Chicago's biggest mysteries. More>>
Drinking and college: Two words that seem to go together when teens graduate from high school. More>>
Chicago Public School officials are making a new round of promises about the safety of students who will be forced to transfer next fall. More>>
A Merrillville police officer shot a man Monday afternoon when the two got into a fight in the parking lot of the Merrillville Planned Parenthood office. More>>
A crooked Chicago cop who joined forces with drug dealers was sentenced to 18 years behind bars Monday. More>>
Ray Manzarek, the keyboardist and founding member of The Doors who had a dramatic impact on rock ‘n' roll, has died. He was 74. More>>
Gov. Pat Quinn said Illinois lawmakers have a chance to make history on two fronts this month by approving a plan to fix the state's decades-old pension crisis and legalizing same-sex marriage. More>>
A 9-year-old boy was seriously injured Sunday when a neighbor's dog jumped a fence and attacked him in his Roseland neighborhood backyard. More>>
Police are seeking the public's help in locating the suspects in several armed robberies in the South Side Grand Boulevard neighborhood in May. More>>
United Airlines put its 787 back in the air on Monday, with both the airline and Boeing hoping to put the plane's four-month grounding behind them. More>>
A church was discovered vandalized Saturday on the Southeast Side by a deacon preparing for morning service. More>>
Former White House social secretary Desiree Rogers has been appointed to head the board of a government-supported nonprofit that promotes Chicago as a tourism and convention destination. More>>
An 87-year-old woman who alleges Donald Trump cheated her in a bait-and-switch scheme has told jurors she had qualms about suing the developer-turned-TV star given his power and influence. More>>
Five people died and six others were taken to hospitals Monday after the van they were riding in left a southern Illinois freeway and overturned several times, Illinois State Police said. More>>
When Lindsay Carter heard on the radio that a violent storm was approaching her rural Oklahoma neighborhood, she gathered her belongings and fled. When she returned, there was little left. More>>
Chicago teachers, parents and students are hitting the streets for a third and final day of citywide marches in protest of Mayor Rahm Emanuel's proposal to close dozens of schools. More>>
Transit officials said the first rush hour of CTA's five-month Red Line construction project went smoothly Friday morning. Mayor Emanuel also stopped by to thank commuters for taking the project in stride. More>>
Twelve people have been charged with misdemeanor offenses after police responded to groups of teens running through traffic on North Michigan Avenue and elsewhere on the Gold Coast. More>>
The derailment of an Amtrak City of New Orleans train on the Near South Side Sunday morning led to delays and a couple cancellations for trains on Metra's Rock Island District line. More>>
A woman was found dead near a bus stop at O'Hare International Airport Saturday, authorities said.
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It didn't seem right to Clinton Shepherd that the birthplace of the Ferris wheel didn't hold the record for the longest Ferris wheel ride. More>>
Five people have been killed and at least 18 others wounded — including a 12-year-old boy left in critical condition — in shootings across the city since Friday night. More>>
Four people were injured in a crash on the Kennedy Expressway on the Northwest Side Sunday morning.
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A 23-year-old woman was killed and four others were critically injured when two cars crashed into a building in the Far South Side Washington Heights neighborhood early Sunday. More>>
A little boy who was found alone near Douglas Park on the West Side Sunday morning has been reunited with his family.
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One number in Saturday night's Powerball drawing was the difference for a dozen Illinois players between being $10,000 richer and living the life of a multi-millionaire - whose ticket was purchased in Florida. More>>
It's all about the odds, and one single ticket in Florida has beaten them all by matching the numbers drawn for the highest Powerball jackpot in history at an estimated $590.5 million, lottery officials disclosed Sunday. More>>
A mentally handicapped woman who went missing Friday from the Chicago Lawn neighborhood on the Southwest Side has been found and returned home. More>>
Cook County Sheriff Thomas Dart says there is an outbreak of lice and scabies at the county jail and the hospital serving jail detainees. More>>
So much for those dreams that many Illinoisans had, of enjoying the upcoming Memorial Day holiday with an extra couple hundred million dollars. More>>
Storm clouds are over the White House and President Obama's second term agenda is in danger of getting sidetracked. More>>
FOX 32 has uncovered new information about the rape kits discovered last February, gathering dust in a police station in south suburban Robbins. More>>
We all know Chicago has great pizza and now a survey of the country's food experts proves it. More>>
On Friday, the current Chicago Teacher's Union President Karen Lewis announced that she has been re-elected and says she won with 80 percent of the vote. More>>
Three teenagers have been charged with sexual assaulting a 12-year-old girl last year and posting a video of the attack on Facebook. More>>
Emergency crews rescued two people from a boat that capsized in Lake Michigan Friday afternoon near the Woodlawn neighborhood. More>>
Police in northwest suburban Park Ridge say a 63-year-old Chicago man conducted a fictitious business that defrauded people in at least four states. More>>
The state poison center is starting to get calls about a dangerous new synthetic drug called 2C-E. More>>
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn must decide if he will sign a measure allowing the use of marijuana for medical purposes after the state Senate approved legislation on Friday. More>>
Donald Trump got his chance this week to speak to jurors at a civil trial in Chicago and now the 87-year-old woman who sued him gets her turn. More>>
An outbreak of lice and scabies at the Cook County Jail prompted sheriff's police to issue an isolation order for some inmates. More>>
Four people were hospitalized Friday afternoon when an elevator they were in at a Near North Side parking garage dropped five stories. More>>
A man who tried to rob three women with a knife in the River North area Thursday night was apprehended by police who spotted him downtown soon after the crimes. More>>
Two people were killed in a south suburban fire early Friday, authorities said. More>>
A DePaul University student will spend the next 145 days in jail for his role in a deadly beach brawl in 2011. More>>
A 15-year-old boy was killed in a shooting Thursday night in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood, authorities said. More>>
Police in northwest suburban Park Ridge say a 63-year-old Chicago man conducted a fictitious business that defrauded people in at least four states and they are now looking for additional victims. More>>
The Powerball jackpot has jumped again! An incredible $600 million is up for grabs, and officials expect it will increase even more before Saturday night's drawing. More>>
Nine stops on the south branch of the CTA's Red Line – from Cermak/Chinatown to 95th/Dan Ryan - will be shut down starting Sunday for a five-month $1 billion reconstruction project. More>>
Police are warning businesses in the River North area of a spate of burglaries, mainly at night, over the past couple weeks, including one night this week when businesses were targeted. More>>
Chicago police take on Chicago firefighters this Sunday in the "Battle of the Badges" Football Bowl! EJ Zbikowski of the Chicago Blaze explained who benefits from their charity game against the Chicago Enforcers. More>>
The Chicago Police Department says a woman who claimed she was robbed of cash and jewelry worth hundreds of thousands on the Mag Mile earlier this week, made the whole thing up. More>>
Two high school students took yearbook photos that will not appear in the yearbook because the photos show their pregnant bellies. More>>
Imagine how embarrassed you'd be if your neighbors and friends learned you'd been accused of illegally downloading adult porn films. More>>
He's known for his age, size and lyrics. Now, rapper Lil Mouse is accused of threatening to kill a boy nearly half his age. More>>
A person sent us an email about an Instagram account filled with risqué pictures of women riding the Chicago Transit Authority's trains and busses. More>>
Look out McGriddles, there's a new fast food breakfast in town. Taco Bell is currently testing out the Waffle Taco as a possible breakfast item in at least one Southern California location. More>>
The first of four Chicago families has won a $45,000 energy efficient home makeover from ComEd, in their Smart Home Showcase contest. Jennifer Montague explained how far Leticia Gonzalez's essay will take her. More>>
Three Chicago non-profits have joined forces to create Primelife Home Improvement. CEO Chris Roller explained how the project helps seniors live comfortably and safely in their own homes. More>>
Now trending online: A hero who can tell quite a story. More>>
The uncle of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev arrived in Massachusetts on Sunday to arrange for his burial. More>>
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