A telecommunications company worker was electrocuted while working on a utility pole Tuesday on 23rd and Locust streets.
Another worker, Jordan R.M. Zulauf, 23, of West Chicago, was injured and airlifted to OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center in Rockford, where he was in critical condition.

Authorities in St. Clair County are investigating a fatal accident that happened on Illinois Route 50 just before 9:30 pm. Fox 2 has learned that a domestic dispute in a semi-tractor trailer cab between a man and a woman caused the accident.

Authorities say a natural gas explosion and fire at a townhouse complex in suburban Chicago has injured two utility workers.
The explosion in Romeoville was reported Tuesday evening.

A Chicago area family has filed a wrongful death suit against UPS, two months after a truck hit and killed a 78-year-old woman in the Sauganash neighborhood.

Some customers of State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. claim the company conspired to help elect an Illinois Supreme Court candidate so he could vote to throw out a $1 billion award against the company.

An extra-alarm fire leveled a West Side shopping plaza Monday night, pouring heavy smoke through the East Garfield Park neighborhood and causing minor injuries to two firefighters.

Nearly every home and business in the metro have one. Kansas City Power & Light is at the tail end of a two and a half year project to install more than 700,000 smart meters across the metro. It’s a small part of the billions of dollars utilities have invested in smart meters across the U.S.

There are few things worse than having your relatively new car stall on you without warning. That’s why Ford is recalling nearly 90,000 vehicles with a defect that could leave your car dead — and unable to restart — in the middle of the road.

Four people were killed, including a 3-month-old baby, in an extra-alarm fire early Tuesday in the South Chicago neighborhood. The fire started around 1:40 a.m. in a three-story apartment building in the 8100 block of South Essex Avenue.

HEI Hotels & Resorts provided a list of hotels—20 hotels in 10 states and the District of Columbia—that suffered a “security incident,” in which payment card data of customers may have been affected. “HEI was recently alerted to a potential security incident by its card processor,” HEI said in a statement released Friday.

The driver was pulled from the car mere moments before it erupted into flames. A burned and broken sports car strewn across the streets of Chicago isn’t a pretty sight.

Two horse owners sued Archer Daniels Midland Co this week, accusing the U.S. grain processor and trader of distributing contaminated feed that sickened or killed several of their horses, according to court documents seen by Reuters.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have announced a US$177 million settlement with Enbridge Energy Limited Partnership and several related Enbridge companies to resolve claims stemming from its 2010 oil spills in Marshall, Mich., and Romeoville, Ill.

Over the past two years, General Motors has recalled millions of vehicles over airbag issues, many related to Takata safety devices deploying too forcefully. Now, the company is recalling nearly 290,000 Chevrolet sedans for a different reason: the airbags might not deploy in a crash.

A strange series of events unfolded at a Chicago furniture store, starting with an accident involving an SUV, and ending with a smash-and-grab heist hours later.