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By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News (CHICAGO) Mayor Rahm Emanuel is going to court to try to save the Lucas Museum for Chicago. Emanuel is asking the U.S. Court of Appeals to throw out the Friends of the Par...

Weeks of bitter campaigning came to a head in Indiana on Tuesday. The day started with Donald Trump repeating a claim that Ted Cruz’s father was died to John F. Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswal...

Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart says he's interested in possibly running for Chicago Mayor in 2019. Dart briefly thought about running for Mayor in 2011 when Emanuel was first elected. Tom Dart joined Jo...

(CHICAGO) A man was critically injured Monday afternoon when he was struck by an SUV in the Bridgeport neighborhood on the South Side. Joshua Thomas, 26, was driving a 2000 Dodge Durango in the 3500 b...

By Jen DeSalvo, WLS-AM 890 News (WILMINGTON) A special event is being held on Saturday, May 7, 2016 at the Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie in Wilmingon, Illinois to view the 23 bison cows that arri...

MILWAUKEE (AP) - Passengers are now allowed by Amtrak to take bicycles aboard Hiawatha trains running between Milwaukee and Chicago. The Journal Sentinel reported Tuesday that the service permitting b...

WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) - One of the two Wisconsin girls accused of trying to kill a classmate to appease a fictional horror character called Slender Man is appealing a judge’s decision that keeps h...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) – Officials say an Illinois woman shot in a drive-by shooting on a Wisconsin interstate has been declared brain dead and is only being kept on life support to preserve her org...

Forecast Summary Meteorologist Ray Stagich WLS-AM Forecast Wednesday, May 4th, 2016 Some rain next hour or so. Ending NW-SE, then Chilly Northerly lake breezes Wednesday. A big warm up later this week...

Martha P. Strauss | St. Charles police (ST. CHARLES) A 52-year-old Geneva woman was arrested and charged Tuesday with stealing more than $100,000 from a veterinary clinic in west suburban St. Charles....