A Spirit Airlines flight traveling from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, was diverted to the Dominican Republic after gangs opened fire at the aircraft Monday, the U.S. State Department and the airline said. According to the airline, Spirit Airlines Flight 951 departed Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport Monday morning and ...

Hot tub season in Chicago officially begins this week. Thursday, the Chicago Electric Boat Company will bring back its wildly popular “Hot Tub Boats” for winter 2024, according to a press release. The boats, which travel up and down the Chicago River, went viral during the winter 2023 season, with sold out dates and waitlists nearly every day, ...

Though control over the U.S. House of Representatives still hangs in the balance after Election Day 2024, Republicans were inching closer to victory Tuesday morning with more seats gained but more than a dozen races still uncalled. According to NBC News, as of Tuesday morning, 10 of those races were considered “key” efforts by both parties to grab ...

Lanes were closed and delays were expected on I-55 near Bolingbrook during the Tuesday morning rush hour commute after a semi flipped on its side overnight. NBC 5 Traffic Reporter Kye Martin reported the accident, which occurred around 12:30 a.m., was at I-55 between Veterans Parkway and Joliet Road. At least two left inbound lanes and the left ...

A conservative prosecutors attorney struggled Monday to persuade the Wisconsin Supreme Court to reactivate the states 175-year-old abortion ban, drawing a tongue-lashing from two of the courts liberal justices during oral arguments. Sheboygan Countys Republican district attorney, Joel Urmanski, has asked the high court to overturn a Dane County judges ...

Diners who want a little bit of extra spice with their meals at Portillos now have a new sauce option from the chains menu. According to a social media post, Portillos has begun offering Sweet Baby Rays Buffalo Wing Sauce at its restaurants, with the sauce available both in-store and via online ordering. The restaurant chain offers an extensive list ...

Employees at a South Carolina compound that breeds monkeys for medical research have recaptured five more animals that escaped last week from an enclosure that wasn’t fully locked. As of Monday afternoon, 30 of the 43 monkeys that made it outside the Alpha Genesis facility in Yemassee are back in the company’s custody unharmed, police said in a ...

This weeks full moon will also be a supermoon, the final one of 2024 and the last one well see for quite some time. So what makes the Beaver Moon, as it was named by Native Americans, so special this month? Heres what you need to know. When will the supermoon rise in the sky? According to Astronomy Magazine, the moon will hit its full phase at ...

A sentencing date was set in the case of Richard Allen, the former Indiana drugstore worker who was found guilty on Monday in the killings of two teenage girls who vanished during an afternoon hike. Jurors convicted Richard Allen of two counts of murder and two additional counts of murder while committing or attempting to commit kidnapping in the 2017 ...

In the early morning hours of New Years Day, Cheryl Thompson said she woke up in her driveway. She wasnt sure how she got there. Hours earlier, shed gone to a bar less than a half mile from her Cobden, Illinois, home to meet a friend and celebrate New Years Eve. She doesnt remember leaving and said she woke up sore. I know I was sexually ...

Illinois Lottery players can try their luck at the largest Fast Play jackpot in U.S. history. The grand prize for the Ultimate Diamond Jackpot game, one of the Illinois Lottery’s Fast Play games, hit $5.5 million and continues to grow, according to a news release from the Illinois Lottery. As a progressive jackpot game, the jackpot begins at ...

It may be time to invest in some new cooking utensils after a recent study found some common kitchen tools may be leaking dangerous flame retardant chemicals into your food. And the everyday items with the highest concentrations of these chemicals may many consumers. They might be a hold over from your college days. Or maybe theyre a brand new ...

Louis B. Smith Jr. served in the Army for 21 years. But Smith faced one of his most life-threatening moments off the battlefield and at home in Country Club Hills. At 63, Smith was diagnosed with cardiac amyloidosis, which causes heart failure. Around Thanksgiving last year, he was given priority status on the heart transplant list. Two weeks later, ...

Country Club Hills authorities on Monday released surveillance images of the vehicle wanted in connection with the shooting death of a parent in the parking lot of Hillcrest High School. According to Bremen High School District 228, a parent attending a junior high school boys’ basketball tournament taking place at the school was shot in the ...

As the Illinois Tollway switches from plastic transponders in favor of new sticker tags, drivers are being urged to make the transition sooner than later. The Tollway previously said it would send customers sticker tags when transponders reach their expiration dates. While people are still being encouraged to make the switch, the deadline is being ...

The Chicago Bears are averaging less than 20 points per game and havent scored an offensive touchdown in two weeks, leading to questions about offensive coordinator Shane Waldrons status. Waldron, hired by the Bears from the Seattle Seahawks prior to the season, has come under increasing scrutiny for his playcalling, especially as rookie quarterback ...

Revered abolitionist Harriet Tubman, who was the first woman to oversee an American military action during a time of war, was posthumously awarded the rank of general on Monday. Dozens gathered on Veterans Day at the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park in Maryland’s Dorcester County for a formal ceremony making Tubman a one-star brigadier ...

Multiple streets were closed surrounding the Harlem Irving Plaza shopping mall in suburban Norridge on Monday afternoon after a vehicle fell from a parking garage. A photo posted on social media at 1:07 p.m. showed a car upside down, adjacent to a parking garage, while first responders surrounded the vehicle. Norridge police didn’t immediately confirm ...

Richard Allen, an Indiana man charged with murder in the 2017 killings of two teenage girls who disappeared during an afternoon hike near their small hometown of Delphi was found guilty on all charges, the jury announced Monday afternoon. According to NBC Affiliate WTHR, Allen, 52, was facing two felony counts of murder and two additional counts of ...

With Black Friday and the holiday shopping season on the horizon, a popular suburban mall just got a $9 million facelift, with renovations including updated and modernized flooring, ceilings and a revamped main entrance. North Riverside Park Mall, in Chicago’s near west suburbs, recently underwent nearly $9 million in renovations, a release said. The ...

One of Chicagos biggest music festivals will not return in 2025, as Pitchfork announced its annual fest will not be held in the city next year. In a letter published to social media Monday, Pitchfork officials announced that the evolving landscape of the music industry required them to make difficult decisions, and that included pulling the plug on the ...

The Chicago Bears havent scored a touchdown in two weeks and have lost three straight games, and while head coach Matt Eberflus says changes are being weighed, he wont announce them just yet. During his Monday press conference at Halas Hall, Eberflus said that the team is going to make changes and adjustments, but said the team is still weighing those ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: The video above is a live feed outside the courthouse. The jury in the trial of an Indiana man charged with murder in the 2017 killings of two teenage girls who vanished during an afternoon hike near their small hometown of Delphi has reportedly reached a verdict after days of deliberations. The verdict was reached Monday ...

A massive new casino opened in the Chicago area Monday. TheWind Creek Chicago Southlandopened to the public at 11 a.m., bringing a “state-of-the-art casino” to the East Hazel Crest suburb in what is described as “the first step toward delivering a full-scale integrated resort experience, scheduled for completion in spring 2025.” The ...

Boxing legend Mike Tyson is set to return to the ring for the first time in nearly 20 years this week for a showdown with Jake Paul, a YouTube-star-turned-boxer in highly anticipated match at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. The Tyson-Paul bout, originally announced in March, was initially scheduled for July 20 but postponed months before after Tyson, ...