Jake Griffin Daily Herald Media Group

An executive order signed Friday by Gov. JB Pritzker aims to ensure Illinois residents have access to the appropriate vaccines ahead of the fall respiratory virus season

Villa Park firefighters were able to rescue a family’s pet tarantula from an early morning house fire Thursday.

Illinois motorists will pay an average of about $6 more in gasoline taxes over the coming year as the state’s motor fuel tax rate hike goes into effect Tuesday

A popular Addison shopkeeper is considering retirement after robbery

A reckless driver caused mayhem in Lake County and injured several people during a police chase Tuesday evening near Gurnee, authorities said.

Drug overdose deaths in the Chicago area mirror a statewide and national trend showing a sharp decline from 2023 to 2024.

The new pope, formerly Robert Prevost and now Pope Leo XIV, is the youngest of three boys raised by a school superintendent father and school librarian mother in south suburban Dolton

A resident of one of the apartment units in the two-story dwelling on the 500 block of North Washington Avenue reported a stove fire just after 8 p.m., fire officials said.

A 54-year-old Chicago man is charged with first-degree murder after authorities said he spat on a Glendale Heights woman and stabbed her in the back Thursday near a CTA green line stop in Chicago.

Six people are in custody after Downers Grove police say a woman was the victim of an armed robbery Tuesday night.

A Georgia man is facing federal charges for threatening a spiritual mission based in West Chicago.

One person is dead after an early morning house fire near Lombard Wednesday.

A Downers Grove man who operated an immigration assistance practice is facing multiple immigration fraud charges, according to a federal indictment unsealed Monday.

Two people were killed in a crash Sunday night near Elgin, according to the Kane County sheriff’s office.

The Kane County sheriff’s office is investigating a fatal crash Monday morning near West Dundee.