Chicago Fire's latest episode just opened up the door, and we may be seeing more than a couple faces leave Firehouse 51 by ...

Ritter and Carver will exit Chicago Fire in the season 13 finale, but another unsuspecting (and significant) character may ...

There are plenty of Buffalo Bills A-listers set to make an appearance in the Hallmark film and well-known actors. Here's who ...

The legends of pastoral fields. The detailed history and meticulous attention to continuity. The sight of kids playing ball.

1920: “ Big Jim” Colosimo, father of the Chicago Outfit, was shot and killed by a person who had been hiding in a cloakroom inside Colosimo’s Cafe on South Wabash Avenue. His murder was never solved.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Charlie Hopkins, one of the last living to have served time in Alcatraz, San Francisco’s notorious island prison, has dismissed President Donald Trump’s order that the jail be reopened.

Murrow Award-winning journalist Chuck Goudie is set to reveal answers in one of the biggest mysteries in Chicago crime history when he unveils the killer of legendary mob boss Sam “Momo ...

An investigation into a waste-hauling services company’s alleged links to organized crime has temporarily paused construction of the new Bally’s Chicago casino. The Illinois Gaming Board ...

An officer shows the inside of a removable section of exit cover. It housed notorious Chicago mob boss Al Capone and Robert Stroud, a convicted murderer who studied birds on the island from behind ...

The maximum-security, minimum-privilege prison operated for nearly 30 years but shut down because it cost three times more to run Alcatraz than other federal prisons NBC Universal, Inc. Alcatraz ...