Yes the darkest day of the year is here, but that means brighter days are ahead. Sunday is the shortest day of the year north of the equator, where the solstice marks the start of astronomical winter.

Judge orders release of actor Timothy Busfield from jail pending child sex abuse case in New Mexico US forces seize seventh sanctioned tanker linked to Venezuela in Trump’s effort to control its oil ...

CHICAGO — A woman is charged in the fatal shooting of a mother in the South Loop this past September. Quadajah Johnson, 31, of Des Plaines, faces one felony count of first-degree murder. Quadajah ...

The first leg of the connector to Interstate 295 opened on June 15, 2003. Twenty-two years later, on Nov. 25, 2025, Fayetteville's Outer Loop will finally be complete. Andrew Barksdale, spokesperson ...

Microsoft has released the KB5072753 out-of-band cumulative update to fix a known issue causing the November 2025 KB5068966 hotpatch update to reinstall on Windows 11 systems repeatedly. As the ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Museum of Broadcast Communications is back! It just opened in the West Loop, with classic collections, interactive features and treasures of TV and radio eras gone by. Late night ...

If you walk through a cavernous hall with flickering lanterns, ghostly projections and dreamlike illusions — there’s a word to describe this phenomenon. It is called “phantasmagoria,” and it is the ...

Sound Judgment: “A lot of people didn’t use our products for protection, but for comfort,” says, Loop CEO Dimitri O (right) with cofounder Maarten Bodewes, “comfort that they get through control over ...

In late 2023, NFL executive vice president of officiating Troy Vincent infamously called kickoffs a “dead, ceremonial play.” The league has spent the past two years trying to resuscitate it. Enter ...

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