On Friday about 2 p.m., Hobart Police say they released an alert describing a car allegedly involved in a theft of multiple items from a retail area.

When a Lake County Sheriff’s Deputy saw the car in Gary and tried to stop it, the driver refused and led law enforcement on a high speed chase that ended near Chicago's Chinatown neighborhood.

Police say three adults were arrested.

WBBM political editor Geoff Buchholz reports the founder of the conservative Wirepoints research site has formally launched his Republican campaign to unseat Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker.

An effort to detain a man at the DuPage County courthouse sends three deputies to the hospital.

Chicago's newest music venue has officially opened its doors in an unusual space.

DuMont was 81-years-old when he passed away on Wednesday, according to a statement by the Museum of Broadcast Communications.

DuMont made his first appearance on radio in 1946 in Chicago, and went to work at many local radio and TV stations.

DuMont founded the Museum of Broadcast Communications, which opened in 1987 in the Loop.

WBBM political editor Geoff Buchholz reports Chicago lawyers have agreed to pay $90 million to settle 176 misconduct claims tied to convicted former Chicago police Sergeant Ronald Watts.

WBBM political editor Geoff Buchholz reports on the findings of a new survey of Chicago-area public transit riders.

For the first time in 24 years, Cook County is getting a new chief judge.

Timothy C. Evans lost reelection on Wednesday.

He was the longest serving chief judge and the first African American elected to the post.

A Chicago man has been charged with attempted murder for a shooting last month in West Woodlawn.

Chicago police and US marshals with the Great Lakes Fugitive Task Force arrested Nicholas Killingsworth Tuesday in Calumet City.

WBBM political editor Geoff Buchholz reports downtown Chicago alderman Brendan Reilly says he'll challenge incumbent County Board president Toni Preckwinkle in next March's Democratic primary.