During Super Bowl LX, a song that once welcomed children to the neighborhood will get a pop transformation with Lady Gaga's new cover. Its quiet magic came from the touch of a jazz musician. to.wttw.com/3O6DFT6

Global music icon Bad Bunny is set to take the stage this Sunday for a Super Bowl halftime performance. Thousands of fans — including many Puerto Ricans — are looking forward to his performance and see the moment as a culturally important one. https://to.wttw.com/3ZieX4J

Bethany MaGee, the woman who was doused with gasoline and lit on fire onboard a CTA Blue Line train, has been released from the hospital months after the brazen arson attack. https://to.wttw.com/4kohwf5

A federal judge has agreed to release video, photos and other evidence sought by Marimar Martinez, the Chicago woman who was shot five times by a Border Patrol agent in Brighton Park last fall. https://to.wttw.com/45Maf2Q

Chicago’s streak of sub-freezing days came to a merciful end Friday morning when the mercury finally hit 32 degrees for the first time in 20 days. https://to.wttw.com/4r0lZqK

That measure would give the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, known as COPA, the authority to investigate whether CPD officers helped federal agents carry out deportations. A final vote by the Chicago City Council is set for Feb. 18. https://to.wttw.com/4ryY6Xe

A Chicago man faces a first-degree murder charge months after he allegedly struck a boat captain in the head at a dock in DuSable Harbor, knocking him into the water where he drowned. https://to.wttw.com/4koekQL

A comedy show at the Hideout, “The Dance of Death” at Steppenwolf Theatre and a Sunday afternoon book club at Empty Bottle are just some of this weekend's art picks from @joshterry.bsky.social. https://to.wttw.com/3NZ7RzK

The blitz is on as Indiana pushes to become the new home of the Chicago Bears. State lawmakers there are considering Senate Bill 27, which would allow a government authority to buy land and finance the construction of a new NFL stadium. https://to.wttw.com/3OoinjW

To create cohesion and a friendlier environment for pedestrians, one audacious proposal would send a portion of DuSable Lake Shore Drive underground in order connect Buckingham Fountain with the lakefront. https://to.wttw.com/4ryjbkv

As the U.S. sheds manufacturing jobs, Illinois is accepting applications for $24 million in grant funding to establish training facilities at community colleges aimed at bolstering the state’s manufacturing labor pool. https://to.wttw.com/4qnutHj

A pair of homeschooled teenage brothers from the Chicago area continue to work as so-called ICE watchers as the Trump administration's aggressive immigration crackdown sweeps across the U.S. The brothers joined "Chicago Tonight" to talk about their work. https://to.wttw.com/3ZRsUGV

Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling must explain why the number of times police officers used force against individuals has significantly increased since 2022, and detail what he is doing to reverse that trend, Chicago’s police oversight board says. https://to.wttw.com/4qTdHky

Illinois will join the World Health Organization’s Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network, or GOARN, to counterbalance the federal government’s withdrawal, Gov. JB Pritzker announced Tuesday. https://to.wttw.com/45Ifd0w

Clerk Mariyana Spyropoulos’ office has launched a new e-citation program that allows traffic citations to be transmitted to the circuit court clerk’s office electronically, which she said will cut down on delays and improve overall efficiency. https://to.wttw.com/4a82FlL

Each Wednesday, WTTW News producer @joshterry.bsky.social presents must-see live music shows around the Chicago area. Catch a rapper and a DJ team up in Wicker Park at Subterranean, an Irish band at Sleeping Village this weekend and more this weekend. https://to.wttw.com/4aiezbu

Those opposed argue the program diverts public dollars to private schools while public schools remain underfunded. Supporters of the program argue that not opting in would leave money on the table that could otherwise go to support students in the state. https://to.wttw.com/3ZdAHyF

The Trump administration is reducing the number of immigration officers in Minnesota but will continue its enforcement operation that has sparked weeks of tensions and deadly confrontations, border czar Tom Homan said Wednesday. https://to.wttw.com/46yfpQ7

A federal judge has barred the Trump administration from deporting a Chicago man who was taken into ICE custody last month shortly after he was acquitted of placing a $10,000 bounty on the head of Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino. https://to.wttw.com/4tn25bi

Anjanette Young, a social worker who was handcuffed while naked during a botched raid in February 2019, says she is frustrated with a new CPD policy that does not ban officers from serving no-knock warrants or pointing guns at children during raids. https://to.wttw.com/46jdIWE

The Louisiana native owners of Spoken Cafe are celebrating Mardi Gras in a big way this year - even while the serve pay-what-you-can community suppers and embrace sustainability: to.wttw.com/3O4mSQA

What's the one thing out-of-towners get wrong about Chicago? Your response could be included in our newsletter, the Daily Chicagoan. Subscribe here: to.wttw.com/4axsYlD

After a year of historic declines in violence across Chicago, the city has begun 2026 with further drops in the number of shootings and homicides. https://to.wttw.com/4tg7tgf

The deadline to apply to fill three vacant seats on Chicago’s police oversight board is Friday, officials said. https://to.wttw.com/4admVBd

U.S. Reps. Danny Davis and Jonathan Jackson, both Democrats from Illinois, joined "Chicago Tonight" to discuss Trump's urging this week to the House to end the partial government shutdown with a quick vote. https://to.wttw.com/3ZM4COq

After nearly a month spent in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, a Chicago father of three has been reunited with his family. https://to.wttw.com/45Olesp

The Chicago City Council will vote Feb. 18 on a proposal that would allow the Civilian Office of Police Accountability to investigate whether CPD officers have violated city law by helping federal immigration agents. https://to.wttw.com/4rwe3gV

According to a monthly climate summary issued by the National Weather Service, January finished with an average temperature of 21.9 degrees, or 3.3 degrees below normal, as recorded at O’Hare Airport, the city’s official weather station. https://to.wttw.com/4rwhpkb

The teenagers’ names are Sam and Ben, but to the federal immigration agents they interact with daily, the two boys wielding cell phones and taking down plate numbers are a duo known as “the brothers.” https://to.wttw.com/45GhbhR

The Groundhog Day results are in and once again Punxsutawney Phil and Woodstock Willie have issued competing prognostications. https://to.wttw.com/4a8oWhX

Chicagoans can now vote to name six of the city’s snowplows. “Abolish ICE” is among the listed finalists after officials received more than 13,300 submissions and approximately 9,200 of those were for “Abolish ICE.” https://to.wttw.com/4arO58A

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order on Saturday that he said would lay “the groundwork to prosecute ICE & Border Patrol agents for criminal misconduct.” https://to.wttw.com/4t1OIwS

A federal judge reversed course Friday, ruling that former Mayor Rahm Emanuel does not have to testify about allegations that a “code of silence” among Chicago police officers led to a botched August 2018 raid of a Back of the Yards apartment. https://to.wttw.com/4q830JO

Chicagoans can vote through Sunday to pick a notable Italian to be honored with a statue in Little Italy’s Arrigo Park, where a statue of Christopher Columbus once stood. https://to.wttw.com/4btZl5l

"Ride Safe, Ride Smart, Ride Ready” is designed to establish guardrails around currently unregulated devices, particularly a class of larger and faster e-bikes, called e-motos, capable of reaching speeds of 50 miles per hour. https://to.wttw.com/49R3DTe

Catherine O’Hara, the Emmy-winning actor known for comedic roles across the decades — from Kevin’s beleaguered mom in “Home Alone” to the iconic Moira Rose in “Schitt’s Creek” — died Friday at 71. https://to.wttw.com/4a6SqN2

Journalist Don Lemon and three other people were arrested Friday in connection with an anti-immigration enforcement protest that disrupted a service at a Minnesota church and increased tensions between residents and federal officials. https://to.wttw.com/4rmwIvs

When the Supreme Court granted an unusually quick hearing over President Donald Trump’s tariffs, a similarly rapid resolution seemed possible. Nearly three months have elapsed, and the court isn’t scheduled to meet in public for more than three weeks. https://to.wttw.com/3O09cGh

BREAKING: U.S District Court Judge John Tharp will hold a 3 p.m. hearing today after lawyers for the city ask him to reconsider his order allowing Former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel to testify about CPD's so-called "code of silence". Background, for @wttw.bsky.social news.wttw.com/2026/01/29/r...

A state commission formed to document abuses during a series of increasingly aggressive immigration enforcement raids across Chicago and the suburbs should probe the conduct of senior Trump administration aides, Gov. JB Pritzker said late Thursday. https://to.wttw.com/4alWev7

Forecasters are anticipating multiple rounds of lake effect snow to dump anywhere from 3 to 6 inches of snow on portions of northeast Illinois and northwest Indiana, between Friday morning and Saturday evening. https://to.wttw.com/3M48OWz

Chicago’s police oversight board on Thursday tapped the interim head of the Civilian Office of Police Accountability to lead the city agency charged with investigating serious allegations of Chicago Police Department misconduct on a permanent basis. https://to.wttw.com/4q6tefy

Thursday’s 45-55 test vote came as Democrats have threatened a partial government shutdown when money runs out on Friday. https://to.wttw.com/4qVY4ZS

BREAKING: A federal judge ordered former Mayor Emanuel to testify about allegations that a “code of silence” among CPD officers led to a botched 2018 raid of a Back of the Yards apartment that violated the civil rights of a family with 4 children — ages 4, 8, 11 and 13. @wttw.bsky.social

A federal judge has ordered former Mayor Rahm Emanuel to testify next week in an upcoming trial about allegations that a “code of silence” among Chicago police officers led to a botched August 2018 raid of a Back of the Yards apartment. https://to.wttw.com/3LGApNF

New work requirements for SMAP go into effect Feb. 1, threatening benefits for hundreds of thousands of Illinoisians. Kenny Robinson, an Englewood resident and SNAP recipient, says he's worried these changes aren't being communicated clearly to residents. https://to.wttw.com/4t7xiz1

A former Illinois sheriff’s deputy was sentenced Thursday to 20 years in prison for fatally shooting Sonya Massey, who had dialed 911 to report a possible prowler outside her Springfield home. https://to.wttw.com/4rmpcB0

Chicago Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez (25th Ward) on Wednesday announced plans to run for Congress. The independent candidate joined "Chicago Tonight" to talk his vision tackling what he sees as the country’s most pressing problems. https://to.wttw.com/4rG8E7h

A federal judge next week is expected to rule on a request from Marimar Martinez, the woman shot five times by a federal immigration agent last fall, to unseal videos, photos and other evidence from the shooting. https://to.wttw.com/4t5Lt7x

From a four-time Tony Award-nominee premiering on the North Shore, to two must-see exhibits from veteran artists and a raucous percussion performance at the Auditorium Theatre, dive into a new memory and a thrilling experience this weekend. https://to.wttw.com/4blaMfD