CHICAGO (WLS) -- Have you ever wondered where all of those Chicago street names came from? Roz Varon investigates in "7 on the Streets." When Chicago was incorporated in 1837, it was 10 square miles and a handful of streets. Today, the city has over 4,000 ...

“I’m a lucky boy,” Shane van Gisbergen beamed Saturday afternoon after claiming two NASCAR national-series pole positions in the span of about three hours on the Chicago Street Course. The darling of the Windy City was referencing his good fortune at ...

The NASCAR Cup Series returns to the Chicago street course on July 6 for the always-eventful Grant Park 165. The first two Cup races through the Chicago streets grabbed headlines in different ways. In 2023, Shane van Gisbergen stunned the sport with a win ...

NASCAR will not race in the streets of downtown Chicago in 2026, pausing a three-year experiment that was unlike anything in the league’s 76-year history and proved it could pull off a race through the streets of a major city. NASCAR announced its ...

Last weekend‘s spotlight at Atlanta was on the first NASCAR In-Season Challenge bracket … and it immediately got blown up. Top seeds Denny Hamlin and Chase Briscoe were knocked out in a massive crash early in Stage 2, turning the debut of a March ...

CHICAGO — NASCAR is pressing pause on its Chicago Street Race, answering at least one major question about its schedule for next season. NASCAR raced on a street course in downtown Chicago on the first weekend in July each of the last three years.

An intersection along 111th Street in Chicago's Mount Greenwood neighborhood was closed early Monday after a pavement collapse.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- An honorary street sign unveiling was held Sunday for the "First Lady of Children's Music" on Chicago's North Side. "Ella Jenkins Way" now stands at the corner of North Mohawk Street and West Wisconsin Street in the city's 43rd Ward.

A man was seen being detained by federal agents on a Chicago street on Tuesday, December 16, as Border Patrol officials returned to the city.Eyewitness Baltazar Enriquez Sanchez saw one man being detained after following federal agents’ vehicles in the predominantly Mexican-American neighborhood of Little Village.

Three major bridge closures could cause major Chicago traffic issues, and they're set to persist for, in some cases, years. The Chicago Avenue Bridge, the Lake Street Bascule Bridge and the Cortland Street Bridge are all closed or closing imminently for ...