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The woman charged with fatally stabbing a 7-year-old girl on a South Side sidewalk will undergo an evaluation to determine whether she is fit to stand trial after a Cook County judge ordered her held in custody following a detention hearing.

A fourth beluga whale rescued from Canada has died at Chicago's Shedd Aquarium, officials said Friday. Another resident whale also died recently of old age.

With the November election less than a month away, the three candidates running to replace retiring U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin are sharpening their messages on affordability, immigration reform and how they would approach the job.

Mike Ditka, a Hall of Fame player who coached the Chicago Bears to the 1985 Super Bowl win, died Friday, sources said.

Reaction is pouring in from Chicago and around the NFL world after the death of Bears legend Mike Ditka.

Vice President JD Vance cast doubt Friday on whether the Pentagon will livestream the execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan in December but told reporters that if it is livestreamed, "I'm not going to be watching it."

A Los Angeles judge has granted Hayden Panettiere's former fiance Wladimir Klitschko temporary guardianship of their daughter's estate.

A powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck Panama on Friday morning, shaking buildings as far away as the capital and prompting evacuations, according to the USGC.

"Windy City Weekend" celebrated host Ryan Chiaverini's birthday Friday.

Diane Pathieu takes a look at what's going on in the city and suburbs.

When Cati Blauvelt's friends discovered she was missing in 2016, some of them checked an abandoned house. She was found dead in the basement.

Mike Ditka, the legendary former Chicago Bears coach and first tight end ever inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, has died at the age of 86.

A woman and a man are facing charges in connection with a CTA bus shooting that injured two people near a South Side school last week, Chicago police said.

A man was shot and critically injured while driving a car in Englewood Thursday night, Chicago police said.

An Avianca Airlines flight bound for New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport was diverted to Miami after several passengers were injured during turbulence.

Workers at several Chicago hotels went on strike Friday morning.

Isaias is the first hurricane of the Atlantic season and was expected to usher in dangerous conditions when it makes landfall late Friday.

Transit workers are demanding answers after a CTA employee was stabbed and killed during a confrontation at a Green Line station.

Residents and activists in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood are calling for criminal charges against an off-duty Chicago police officer after a shooting that injured two men and a block riddled with bullets.

The person's condition was not immediately clear. The New York Police Department, which said it was not involved in the shooting, said the person is conscious.

Sex trafficking revolves around coercion and control. People are often lured into a life that exploits their very being. The Cook County Sheriff's Victim Support Services help survivors in the Chicago area.

President Donald Trump's administration announced Thursday it was suspending Microsoft and several other firms from a program allowing foreign workers to apply for green cards as it also lashed out at universities that bring international students to the U.S. on exchange programs.

Former Ambassador and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel returned to the city Thursday for a celebration of a youth mentoring program he championed during his time in office, while also acknowledging he is considering his own political future.

The Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the execution would be "public."

The final witness of the day was a Chapel Hill Police forensic evidence technician who walked jurors through video recorded at the crime scene.