This week’s Difference Maker is Star August Ali, one of the state’s few Black Certified Professional Midwives, who is working to address racial disparities in maternal health.

WBBM political editor Geoff Buchholz reports on negotiations aimed at ending a stalemate over the city of Chicago's budget for 2026.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service announced that La Guadalupana Foods LLC of Chicago, Illinois, is recalling 2,669 pounds of frozen tamales due to misbranding and an unreported allergen.

Two men and a teenage boy have been charged in the fatal shooting of a 16-year-old in south suburban South Holland, authorities announced Sunday.

Three men, including the Wisconsin man who authorities say supplied the rifle used by Kyle Rittenhouse in the fatal 2020 Kenosha shootings, were arrested following an armed robbery in McHenry County and a police pursuit that ended in Wisconsin, authorities said.

A man armed with a knife was shot by a police officer Sunday in Gary after authorities say he refused commands to drop the weapon and advanced toward an officer.

The new Chicago Snowballs will hold tryouts next month, in search of extraordinary baseball players.

President Donald Trump appears closer to directing his administration to reclassify marijuana as a Schedule III federally controlled substance. That was first reported by the Washington Post, which cites multiple sources with direct knowledge of the situation.