As the nation cautiously marks a two-year decline in overdose deaths, there are new warnings about emerging threats "even worse than fentanyl" in Chicago-area street drugs, the ABC7 I-Team has learned.
The City of Hobart has voted to approve a fill permit on the site designated for an Amazon data center. It came after outcry from the crowd, calling for more studies on the site.
A lawsuit filed by the mother of a second grader at Queen of Martyrs School in Evergreen Park alleges 43-year-old Brett Smith groomed her second grade son and inappropriately touched him.
A Chicago man has been sentenced to six years in prison for sexually assaulting a high school student more than three years ago at a North Side Wendy's restaurant.
Football fans are counting down to the Super Bowl. Players who grew up in the Chicago area are on the roster for both the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks.
A freight train derailed Thursday in Connecticut, sending cars carrying flammable liquid propane into the water, though officials say they don't appear to be leaking.