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It’s the most wonderful time of the year for small businesses as shoppers flock to their stores for gifts and deals.

A few lottery players in Illinois and Indiana woke up a whole lot richer on Saturday — thanks to Friday’s Mega Millions drawing.

The Chicago Bears will look to break up an eight-game losing streak following a disappointing loss to the Minnesota Vikings on Monday Night Football as they look to exact revenge against the fellow division rival Detroit Lions.

A day after multiple outlets reported that party supplies store Party City would be closing all locations and begin winding down operations “immediately,” the chain announced store-wide sales on all products.

Early Saturday morning, the occurrence of the 2024 winter solstice marked the astronomical start of winter, and it’s been greeted with appropriately frigid temperatures.

After a couple of rounds of snow showers impacted the Chicago area late this week, residents across the region are waking up to frigid temperatures Saturday in what will likely be the coldest day for the rest of 2024.

The Chicago Board of Education voted unanimously to fire Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez at its meeting Friday night.

Iconic 1990s and 2000s rock band System of a Down will play three massive stadium shows as part of a limited tour in 2025, and one of them will be in Chicago.

Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes was named as the chief of police in Seattle on Friday, five days after he was thrust into the national spotlight because of a shooting at a religious school in Wisconsin that killed a teacher and student.......Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes was named as the chief of police in Seattle on Friday, five days after he ...

Of all the rules in football, Jim Harbaugh considers the obscure fair-catch kick to be his favorite.

One of the state’s busiest DMVs is now offering some services 24 hours a day, seven days a week at a drive-thru kiosk, Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias said.

A longstanding food establishment in west suburban Villa Park, Strat’s Drive-Thru, will soon bid the community farewell.

Richard Allen, the Indiana man convicted in the 2017 killings of two teenage girls who disappeared during a winter hike was sentenced to 130 years in prison on Friday, in a case that’s long cast a shadow over the teens’ small hometown of Delphi.