A widely shared Facebook post claims COVID-19 has lowered the death rate in Chicago. But that's not what the data show.

Jussie Smollett has been indicted by a special prosecutor in Chicago, nearly a year after the charges against him over an alleged hoax attack were dropped. 

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto said it is ‘caring for a patient who has a confirmed case of the novel coronavirus that originated in Wuhan, China.’

Of all the reports of high strangeness out there, none seem to walk the fine line between between weird and ridiculous as the flying humanoid reports. It would be all too easy to dismiss them, as witnesses often find when revealing their experiences, were it not for the sheer number of reports in the Chicago […]

We have another recent Mothman sighting in the Chicago area, this time from a trucker who took a week to screw up his courage to file a report. Evidently it wasn’t the fellow’s first runin with the winged anomaly, and we have to wonder if he was simply waiting to see what disaster was going […]

Chicago is adding to the city’s vibrant live entertainment and music community with a new music venue, RADIUS. The 55,000 square foot space, set to officially open in 2020, has begun announcing its first run of shows, starting with electronic music producer Dillon Francis on February 29 (Tickets…

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot fired the city’s retiring police superintendent Monday, citing “ethical lapses” that included telling lies about a recent incident in which Eddie Johnson was found asleep at the wheel of his car after having drinks. Johnson “engaged in a series of actions that are intolerable for any leader or position of trust, […]

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot fired Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson on Monday even though he was about to retire, accusing him of lying to her about an incident in October when patrol officers found him sleeping in his car. Johnson's termination comes weeks after he announced his retirement after leading the second-largest U.S. police force for […]

A Chicago police officer is under investigation after body-slamming a man during an arrest on the South Side, an incident captured in a viral video.

The gang leader thought he had provided $500 in cash to man fighting for ISIS in Syria. In reality, it was an undercover FBI agent.