The countdown is finally over. Holiday cheer has arrived at the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry.

President Donald Trump is making it clear he's unlikely to compromise with Democrats on their health care demands as a condition of ending the government shutdown.

UPS and FedEx said they are grounding their MD-11 planes "out of an abundance of caution" following a deadly crash in Kentucky. The FAA has also issued a directive prohibiting all MD-11 operators from flying the aircraft.

Despite the opposition from at least half of City Council, Governor JB Pritzker, civic and business groups, Mayor Brandon Johnson refuses to budge on his corporate head tax plan.

A woman was found dead inside a burning South Side home on Saturday morning, Chicago police said.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson granted an emergency appeal by the Trump administration late Friday, pausing a ruling requiring that SNAP food benefits be fully funded. Many people in Illinois received partial payments earlier Friday, but many say it isn't nearly enough.

A man accused of murdering another man and shooting a Chicago police officer in 2020 avoided trial after pleading guilty Friday.

The man charged in the murders of two men who were targeted during a robbery attempt in Chinatown five years ago was found guilty Friday.

New video appears to show federal agents arresting a man right outside the DuPage County Courthouse in Wheaton. ABC7 spoke to a family member about the harrowing episode.

A man was detained by police during a massive response Friday afternoon for a stolen ambulance pursuit that caused multiple crashes on the city's West Side and led to shots fired by police.