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Cooler nights and shorter days are bringing more fall color to the Chicago area, with yellows emerging on walnuts and honey locusts and reds and oranges appearing on maples.

WBBM political editor Geoff Buchholz updates the controversy surrounding Chicago Board of Education president candidate Hilario Dominguez.

An unexplained soreness near her armpit prompted Jessica Ciupka to see her doctor in January. At 30, with no family history of breast cancer, she did not expect the diagnosis that followed.

A suspicious envelope prompted the evacuation of the Illinois State Board of Elections’ Chicago office Thursday, hours after a separate mailing triggered a hazardous materials response at Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas’ office.

Illinois regulators approved an approximately $82 million increase in Nicor Gas delivery rates Thursday, reducing the utility’s original request by nearly two-thirds.

A Willow Springs man faces two attempted kidnapping charges after authorities said he separately approached two girls at a shopping center Tuesday and repeatedly ordered them into his vehicle.

​The lawsuits against Coco Robotics and Serve Robotics claim that some of their robots use technology that scans hands, faces and bodies of people receiving the deliveries and of bystanders without their consent. The lawsuits claim both companies are in violation of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act. Channel 7 reports Coco Robotics says it has not collected biometric data in Chicago....

A Northwest Chicago high school is bringing the garden to the dining hall. With the help of Quest’s farm-to-table dining program, DePaul College Prep is teaching students how to grow everything from tomatoes to garlic to lemon sorrel.

WBBM political editor reports on a hazardous materials response at the office of the Cook County Treasurer.

Maria Michaud, 40, plead guilty in court on Wednesday to Class 2 felonies of Identity Theft and Money Laundering. ​Attorney General Kwame Raoul says Michaud stole nearly $250,000 in unclaimed property from four victims by filing fraudulent claims with the Illinois State Treasurer's Unclaimed Property Division. Michaud also opened numerous bank accounts in the names of her victims. Michaud on Wedne...

Open enrollment is open season for Medicare scams. Kayla Palmore with the Better Business Bureau’s Tip-Off to the Rip-Off® on WBBM Newsradio has the details.

WBBM political editor Geoff Buchholz reports on an unsuccessful attempt to override a veto from Mayor Brandon Johnson.

​Following Pope Leo's lung cancer diagnosis, a group of students in Lakeview who met the Pope last year put together a care package for him Wednesday.

Illinois voters heard from two candidates for Illinois governor during a televised debate

Called the 'Clean-Off' the competition between the three takes place throughout October, collecting trash off the city streets.

​28-year-old Pedro Anzaldua and 32-year-old Janie Palomo were arrested on Tuesday, according to the Illinois State Police. ​The I.S.P. says on September 5th, Anzaldua and Palomo were riding a motorcycle on I-55 in the southwest suburbs when they allegedly fired a weapon at a vehicle after a road rage incident. No one was injured in the shooting. The Illinois State Police say Anzaldua---whose charg...

WBBM political editor Geoff Buchholz reports on Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson's comments about the stabbing death of a CTA janitor at a Green Line station on the city's West side.

Authorities in the western suburbs say a Chicago woman orchestrated a robbery-gone-wrong at Oakbrook Center Mall, resulting in her accomplice being killed.

​When the two pickups collided on Monday morning at the intersection of Coral Road and Union Road, Marengo Fire officials say a male victim was ejected into a nearby field when one of the vehicles rolled over. ​The male victim suffered critical injuries and was airlifted to Javon Bea Hospital–Riverside in Rockford. Another person in the overturned pickup and the teenage driver of the second pickup...

WBBM's Geoff Buchholz reports on the Field Museum's observances of what's become known as Indigenous Peoples Day.

WBBM political editor Geoff Buchholz reports on a Chicago alderman's pivot to traffic aide to help neighbors get around sewer work in his ward.