A Blue Origin rocket exploded on the launch tower in a fiery blast during a test of its engines, the company says.

Mayor Brandon Johnson met with Pope Leo XIV Thursday and invited him to visit Chicago in 2027.

A man was killed after he started a large fire that damaged three buildings Thursday on the city's Southwest Side, Chicago police said.

The FBI is investigating a deadly agent-involved shooting Thursday on the city's West Side. A large Chicago police response was at the scene as well.

A Chicago Public Schools student, who was detained by ICE alongside his mother during a scheduled check-in for their asylum case, attended his graduation ceremony Thursday.

A teen boy who was shot in the head and critically injured last week on the city's South Side has now died, officials said.

No court room, no jury trial. Instead, rideshare customers injured in serious crashes agree to go through arbitration. The outcome rests on the judgement of one arbitrator, instead of a jury of peers, and the payouts might be vastly different.

A 32-year-old man in Lake Michigan died after being pulled from the water Thursday on Chicago's North Side, police said. He has now been identified.

Months after a woman in Florida was pulled over and cited for allegedly driving while holding a phone in her missing right hand, the traffic citation has been dismissed.

Some high school students on Chicago's South Side want help dealing with grief and trauma after multiple students died recently. They say their needs are being overlooked by their principal.