Professional wrestler CM Punk makes his comeback after 7 years.
Members of the reigning Women's World Cup champion United States national team vow to push their case for equal pay to the US men's team as far as it takes.
Carl Haas, who partnered with actor Paul Newman to back auto racing icon Mario Andretti, has died in his suburban Chicago home, his automotive business announced Thursday. He was 86.
Chile beat Colombia 2-0 in the Copa America semi-final and will face Argentina in Sunday's final after surviving a tumultuous match in Chicago that was halted for more than two hours due to a torrential rain storm.
A Chicago man was shot dead while live-streaming a video of himself on Facebook, police say.
Donald Trump calls off a rally in Chicago after protests against the Republican presidential front-runner led to violent clashes.
The Art Institute of Chicago has recreated Vincent Van Gogh's bedroom in an apartment and is renting it out for $10 a night.
Last year wasn't just the Earth's hottest year on record — it left a century of high temperature marks in the dust.
Wild weather that saw tornadoes and flooding kill dozens of people continued to advance across the United States Monday, now bringing deep snow and freezing rain over a huge swath of the country.
The delicate remains of Homo floresiensis in a cave on Flores island in Indonesia told the remarkable story of a tiny species of early human, standing about 1 metre tall.
Latin music stars including Carlos Santana and Pitbull on Monday launched a music video in celebration of immigrants.
Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio are to team up for a big screen adaptation of Erik Larson's 2003 book The Devil in the White City.
A convulsion of gun violence leaves 7 dead in 33 shooting incidents across Chicago during a chaotic Independence Day weekend in the midwestern US city, police say on Sunday.