Dane Placko News Today

Thornton Township Supervisor and Dolton Mayor Tiffany Henyard received support at a"Township Talk" meeting; Circle K is offering a major gas discount; and four people have been charged with smuggling drugs into Cook County Jail. Here's today's latest headlines.

11-year-old killed, woman seriously injured in domestic violence incident on North Side

Stay tuned for the sitcom on Democrat Tiffany Henyard.

Migrants continue to arrive in the Chicago area by train, plane and bus; a 911 call led to the rescue of an Indiana man who had been trapped in a crash for a week; and a standout University of Illinois basketball player was charged with rape.

Migrants continue to arrive in the Chicago area by train, plane and bus; a 911 call led to the rescue of an Indiana man who had been trapped in a crash for a week; and a standout University of Illinois basketball player was charged with rape.

If you brew it, they will come. In tonight's special report, Dane Placko taps into a new travel trend that has tourists “pouring" into the Land of Lincoln.

Three weeks after being confirmed as Chicago's top cop, Larry Snelling laid out his vision for the city's embattled police department.

The mayor of south suburban Dolton has fired the city's police chief.

The Guinness Open Gate Brewery opened Tuesday in Chicago’s West Loop, a project two years in the making. It’s only the second Guinness brewpub in the world outside of Dublin.

It's not unusual for the mayor of a big city like Chicago to have a security detail, but residents of south suburban Dolton, with a population of a little more than 20,000, are shelling out hundreds of thousands of dollars a year for police to drive and protect their mayor.