The state of Illinois has launched an investigation into what prompted the immigration raid of a South Side apartment complex last summer, alleging housing discrimination could be involved.

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Vice President JD Vance, speaking in his home state of Ohio before visiting Minnesota on Thursday, blamed the "far left" for turmoil surrounding the White House's deportation campaign.

This week on Cooking up a Storm, ABC7 Chicago meteorologist Tracy Butler headed north to Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.

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A 72-year-old man was seriously injured in a house fire Thursday morning, Chicago police said.

Taylor Swift, Kiss' Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley, Christopher "Tricky" Stewart, Alanis Morissette and Kenny Loggins make up the 2026 Songwriters Hall of Fame inductees.

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