The Chicago area recorded ozone levels of 156 late Monday afternoon. Levels above 100 are considered unhealthy. Residents with respiratory issues, children and the elderly are advised to stay indoors and limit exposure to air outside until Tuesday evening.

An Air Quality Alert has been issued through Tuesday for the Chicago area from wildfire smoke coming in from Canada.

Unhealthy air has invaded Minnesota, Wisconsin and North Dakota early this week as a new round of wildfire smoke from Canada has wafted into the region, choking out areas as far south as Chicago and Detroit.

Officer Vásquez Lasso was shot and killed on the job back in March 2023. The now-21-year-old defendant, Steven Montano, was 18 at the time of the shooting.

Officer Andres Vásquez Lasso’s accused killer is scheduled to stand trial, with jury selection set to begin Monday at the Leighton Criminal Court Building.

The now-21-year-old defendant, Steven Montano, is charged with first-degree murder, as well as charges of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon and opening fire near a school building. Tara Molina reports.

Former Troy catcher Brooks Bryan was also drafted on Monday, going to the Kansas City Royals in the eighth round.

The Cubs selected Wake Forest outfielder Ethan Conrad at No. 17 in the first round of the 2025 MLB draft on Sunday. He was listed as the No. 28 prospect for the draft by MLB.com. Conrad was limited to 21 games this season due to a season-ending surgery in April after sustaining a left shoulder injury diving for a ball in March.

The robbery happened on Granville Avenue in West Rogers Park, or West Ridge. When reviewing the metadata on the newly-released security camera footage of Jeffrey Epstein's last day alive, experts found something very odd: that it appears to have been manipulated.

Chicago police were searching for a gunman on an electric scooter who shot and robbed a teenage boy on the city’s Far North Side, authorities said Sunday. At around 5:15 p.m., a 17-year-old boy was approached by a man riding a scooter in the 2100 block of West Granville Avenue near Hoyne Avenue.