Projected to open in 2028, the 170-room Ritz-Carlton is expected to be one of the most upscale hotels in central Indiana, ...

Thousands of people packed the Chicago Riverwalk on Wednesday for the city's first-ever nationally televised New Year's Eve celebration. Chicago native Chance the Rapper is headlining the festivities, ...

Long-shot congressional candidate Bruce Leon, who has said the influential pro-Israel lobbying organization AIPAC pressured ...

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CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chicago-area residents are getting ready for the last party of the year: New Year's Eve. Downtown, organizers are preparing for the first-ever "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chicago-area leaders are speaking out after President Donald Trump announced the U.S. has captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife amid strikes in country overnight.

The New York Times kept readers on their toes in 2025, thanks to its stable of popular games. There were more than 11.2 billion puzzles solved on New York Times Games this year, led by 4.2 billion ...

Flooding in a Cook County building downtown led to a large emergency response on Friday morning. Trump discovers Maduro’s Achilles’ heel New class of warship to be named after Trump Dread, tears as ...

A man was shot downtown Thursday morning, Chicago police said. The shooting took place at about 2 a.m. in the 800-block of South Michigan Avenue. Police said a 37-year-old was shot in the leg and ...

What a night it was. Thousands of people filled Wacker Drive to ring in the New Year. Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest" marked the first time Chicago was featured in the national ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson and Chicago police Superintendent Larry Snelling on Monday urged local parents to keep vigilant over their teens’ whereabouts ahead of the city’s planned New Year’s Eve ...

Jon Hansen, sitting in for Dave Plier, welcomes Craig Dorsey, local historian and Master of the Living Historians Guild of DuPage, who introduces WGN listeners to the Mayslake Peabody Estate in Oak ...