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Before the countdown to 2025, there’s the countdown to get all your holiday shopping in before Christmas Eve and Hanukkah hit for 2024 — and they’re approaching quickly.

Chicago Bears left tackle Braxton Jones will miss the team’s final two games of the season and will require surgery on an ankle injury he suffered in Sunday’s loss to the Detroit Lions.

President Joe Biden announced on Monday that he is commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row, including two from Illinois. But what exactly does that mean?

The clock is ticking to visit Christkindlmarket, Chicago and Aurora’s iconic Christmas market for the holidays this year — and here’s hoping you won’t have to wait in too long of a line.

Somehow, the holidays sneak up each year, with consumers running out stores like Costco at the last minute as Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Hanukkah approach. But is the warehouse club open?

From Costco to Walmart, here’s a full list of grocery stores in the Chicago area and their holiday hours for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

Police in a Chicago suburb are warning residents to avoid a corridor where “several unsafe acts” have been committed by drivers, with authorities threatening to spike tires and fee some up to $900.

Need a last-minute gift or ingredient ahead of Christmas Day and the start of Hanukkah? While many stores like Target and Walmart will be open on Christmas Eve, many will have limited hours and others will close.

Popular home storage and organization retailer The Container Store intends to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the company announced Sunday.

Approximately 1 million taxpayers will receive $1,400 stimulus checks from the IRS in the coming weeks — and you may be one of them. Here’s what to know.

Chicago’s iconic New Year’s Eve fireworks show along the city’s Riverwalk will return this year to ring in 2025, according to an announcement from the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events.

Chicago Drivers and airline passengers without reindeer and sleighs better make a dash for it: it’s beginning to look like another record for holiday travel in the U.S.

A prank prompted multiple reports of shots fired on Sunday evening at Chicago Ridge Mall, authorities in the south suburb said.