A former employee charged with murder in the fatal shooting of another employee at an automotive paint business in the south suburbs earlier this month appeared in court Thursday.

A 21-year-old man from Naperville facing hate crime charges after a burning cross was found in Grant Park has been released from custody pending his trial. Prosecutors say he claimed he wanted to send a message to the Trump administration.

On The Red Carpet is taking you behind-the-scenes of Pixar Animation Studios, where "Toy Story 5" was brought to life.

Former child actor Daveigh Chase, known for her youthful voice in Disney's "Lilo & Stitch," has died. She was 35.

A missing 7-year-old has died after being found in a suburban retention pond, police said.

Attorneys representing a woman who was sexually assaulted as a teenager at a now-closed, state-supervised residential facility on Chicago's South Side have filed a new legal complaint in the Illinois Court of Claims.

Chicago police are investigating two break-ins at Sephora stores on the city's Near North Side.

It was 161 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed - after the Civil War's end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.

'Project Runway' Season 22 ups the stakes with 22 designers, Tyra Banks' return and celebrity guest judges.

A 6-year-old girl suffered a painful encounter with a rare, invasive jellyfish species while playing in Metedeconk River in New Jersey