CPS votes out Columbus Day in favor of Indigenous Peoples Day

Chicago Public Schools is officially doing away with Columbus Day in favor of Indigenous Peoples Day, according to a report.

PETA offers $5,000 reward for info on abandoned dog found in trash bag

Vinny, the pit bull, was found Feb. 17 in a double-bagged trash bag on Forest Ave, just north of 87th Street in the Buffalo Woods forest preserve.

Jussie Smollett pleads not guilty to restored charges in Chicago

Former “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett pleaded not guilty Monday to restored charges that accuse him of staging a racist, homophobic attack against himself last year in Chicago and falsely reporting to police that the phony attack was real.

Rod Blagojevich arrives home in Chicago following Trump commutation

Rod Blagojevich was released from prison Tuesday night and arrived home in Chicago Wednesday morning after President Donald Trump commuted the sentence of the former Illinois governor.

Jussie Smollett accused of lying to CPD, indicted on 6 counts of disorderly conduct

In a story FOX 32 News broke first, former “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett was indicted Tuesday in Chicago by special prosecutor Dan Webb, stemming from the alleged racist and anti-gay attack on him that occurred in January of 2019.

Chicago Girl Scouts cash in on cannabis legalization, sell cookies outside dispensary

An industrious group of Girl Scouts sold hundreds of boxes of their signature cookies after setting up shop outside of a Chicago cannabis dispensary over the weekend.

CDC reports 1st case of person-to-person spread of coronavirus in Illinois

The latest case - the sixth in the country - is the husband of a Chicago woman who got sick from the virus after she returned from the epicenter of an outbreak in China.

Hundreds attend funeral for Illinois veteran who had no known family

The service for John James Murphy, 71, was held at Symonds-Madison Funeral Home in Elgin. Murphy died Dec. 18 at a nearby hospital after living in a rehabilitation center since 2017.

Chicago woman shot 3 IL State troopers, killing 1, before fatally shooting herself in cigar lounge

Authorities have identified a retired Illinois State trooper who was killed when a Hyde Park woman opened fire in a cigar lounge in west suburban Lisle Friday, wounding two other troopers before fatally shooting herself.

Legal weed sales in Illinois total nearly $11-million in just 5 days

Dispensaries across the state have rendered 271,169 transactions since cannabis was legalized on January 1, 2020 – totaling exactly $10,830,667.91 in sales.

Chicago-area U.S. soldier killed in attack at Kenya military base

Two other Americans, both contractors with the U.S. Department of Defense, were also killed Sunday by al-Shabab extremists at Manda Bay Airfield.

Illinois rakes in $3.2 million on first day of legal recreational marijuana sales

Illinois rang in the new year by officially legalizing the sale of recreational marijuana, raking in nearly $3.2 million in sales on its first day, state officials announced Thursday.