​The 91st annual Memorial Day Parade and Mass took place Monday, May 25, 2026 at Holy Family Church in Little Italy. The memorial honors deceased members of the Chicago Fire Department and Chicago Firemen’s American Legion Post #667.

In 2025, Chicago saw its least violent Memorial Day weekend in at least 16 years. And organizers of a citywide event hope to keep that trend going this weekend. Renita Young reports.

Funeral services were this morning at St. Paul Lutheran Church on Chicago's Northwest Side for firefighter Steve Decker who died last week during a training exercise.

WBBM political editor Geoff Buchholz reports on the start of construction for new bridges to carry I-80 traffic over the Des Plaines River in Joliet.

The unemployment rate for adults with autism is as high as 83%, and nearly half of 25-year-olds with autism have never held a paying job. In today's Difference Maker, WBBM'S Lisa Fielding takes us inside Aspiritech where unique employees are finding meaningful careers in technology.

After more than three decades on the Fox River, Hollywood Casino Aurora is preparing to leave its longtime riverboat home behind and open a sprawling new land-based entertainment complex next month.