This week, WBBM's Carolina Garibay highlights local nonprofit Code Your Dreams, which provides free and stipend-based programs to students of all ages, from kindergarteners in schools, to adults in correctional facilities

This week’s Made in Chicago brings us new flavors of an ancient treat. WBBM’s Nancy Harty reports.

Illinois homeowners with low credit scores are paying significantly more for insurance than those with higher scores, even when they live in areas with little risk of natural disasters, according to a new report from the Consumer Federation of America and the Climate and Community Institute.

Some streets downtown will be closed starting next week as the Chicago Transit Authority works on a new train station.

Firefighters in Gary spent more than 18 hours Sunday battling a massive blaze at a pallet company that later reignited, damaging an adjacent property, officials said.

A massive street party in South Austin may have been the backdrop for three separate shootings early Sunday that left two people dead and seven others injured, though Chicago police have not publicly confirmed the incidents are connected.

On Friday in Saline County, a woman crashed into an Illinois State Police squad car that was parked with its emergency lights on at the site of a crash.

State Police say it's the eighth violation this year of "Scott's Law" which requires drivers to move over when approaching an emergency vehicle or any vehicle with its emergency or hazard lights activated.

82-year-old Diane Carli's vacant home in the Back of the Yards Neighborhood racked up a more than $233,000 water bill.