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Startling footage captured the moment a garbage truck exploded in northwest suburban Arlington Heights, leaving three first responders injured.

The Brookfield Zoo in Chicago prepared a Thanksgiving dinner for its zoo animals on Monday.

Martin Cabrera had worked up a successful career in the investment banking industry when he decided to launch his own business.

Police in Forest Park, Illinois, have released new details after four individuals were shot and killed on a CTA Blue Line train Monday morning.

Around 8:20 a.m., the Chicago Fire Department was called to O’Hare for reports of a person trapped in machinery at Terminal 5, officials said.

A mysterious flood at a Titanic exhibit outside Chicago has museum officials questioning after footage of the water bursting into the building appeared to resemble scenes from the classic movie.

Dorothy Jean Tillman II’s participation in Arizona State University’s May 6 commencement was the latest step on a higher-education journey the Chicago teen started when she took her first college course at age 10.

Famed Chicago music engineer and producer Steve Albini has died at the age of 61, according to multiple reports.

Andrew Davis, an acclaimed British conductor who was music director of the Lyric Opera of Chicago and orchestras on three continents, has died He was 80. Davis died Saturday at Rusk Institute in Chicago from leukemia. That is according to his manager, Jonathan Brill of Opus 3 Artists. Davis had been managing the disease for 1 1/2 to 2 years...

A North Texas pastor has stepped down from his position as CEO and president of a civil rights movement that was previously led by Rev. Jesse Jackson. 

Dr. Frederick Haynes, III, the senior pastor of Friendship-West Baptist Church in Dallas and the president of Rainbow Push Coalition, has stepped down from leadership less than a year after being with the organization.

Dr. Frederick Haynes III has announced that he is resigning from CEO and President of the Rainbow Push Coalition effective immediately. 

Romeo Nance shot himself after a confrontation with police in Natalia, TX, near San Antonio.

An attempted carjacking on the Gold Coast of Chicago was foiled because the suspects failed to operate the vehicle’s manual transmission.

A plane taxiing for departure clipped another aircraft at Chicago O’Hare International Airport on Sunday evening, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. No injuries were reported, both planes were of Boeing design, and the FAA will investigate the incident.

After Chicago took a tougher stance on buses bringing migrants into the city from the Texas border, Texas has begun flying them to Chicago.

Dorothy Hoffner, a lifelong Chicagoan and centenarian who recently set a world record for being the oldest person to ever participate in a tandem skydive, has passed away just a week after her incredible jump.

Aja Evans, an Olympic bobsled medalist from Chicago, filed a lawsuit against the USA Bobsled and Skeleton Federation, alleging nearly a decade of “sexual abuse and harassment” by the team’s osteopathic medical provider while Evans trained and competed for the USA Bobsled team, her attorneys said Thursday.

An autopsy shows a bacterial infection and other factors caused the death of a 3-year-old girl on a bus carrying immigrants from Texas to Chicago last month, an Illinois coroner said Thursday.

A Chicago television news crew has been robbed at gunpoint while they were reporting on a string of robberies.