The crowd outside St. Peter's Basilica erupted as black smoke began to seep from the Sistine Chapel Wednesday night.

A fire broke out overnight at a high school on the city's Northwest Side. There was an emergence response to the third floor ...

A funeral will be held Thursday for the late former Illinois Governor George Ryan in his hometown of Kankakee. He died last ...

A man has changed his plea to guilty for a deadly road rage stabbing in River North in 2022, court documents show.

Charges have officially been dropped against former Alderman Danny Solis, court documents showed. It is all part of a deal he ...

The door to the Sistine Chapel closed as the cardinals begin the process of choosing the new pope. The conclave starting ...

A piece of property visited by tens of thousands in Wisconsin Dells has been sold. The Tommy Bartlett Water Ski Show began in ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Longtime courtroom sketch artist Andy Austin has died. She had a front row seat to many of the most ...

A Philadelphia police officer was shot Wednesday afternoon near a high school, just as classes were dismissed for the day.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chopper 7 was over the moment first responders helped get a dog out of Lake Michigan on Wednesday. It ...

Noem attacked Governor JB Pritzker saying sanctuary policies have unleashed violence on American citizens while shielding ...

Forty-eight-hundred-and-four miles separate Vatican City from Chicago's Holy Name Cathedral, but a group of faithful gathered ...