A Wisconsin man thought to have drowned is alive in Eastern Europe. Ryan Borgwardt, a husband and father of three who authorities said faked his own death in Green Lake, Wisconsin lake and fled the country, is speaking to police but he will not divulge his location. The mysterious case began on the night of…

The Wintrust Magnificent Mile Lights Festival and Parade will return for the 33rd year this Saturday. This year’s holiday event will feature a new Chicago River lighting spectacle and the tallest balloon to ever come down the Mag Mile the weekend before Thanksgiving. The parade will travel south on North Michigan Avenue from Oak Street…

A semi truck driver was seriously hurt after a tanker truck he was driving, rolled over Thursday morning. The accident happened around 3:30 a.m. on the ramp from northbound Mannheim Road to the inbound Eisenhower Expressway in Westchester, which closed that ramp before the morning rush hour. It took crews took two hours to get…

A 6-month-old boy was grazed in the cheek by gunfire that also killed a man as they drove Wednesday morning in the Heart of Chicago neighborhood, officials said. Around 10:45 a.m., a 35-year-old man and the boy were northbound in the 2400 block of South Oakley Avenue when a blue vehicle approached and someone inside…

The Cook County Forest Preserves has just added a new 68-acre parcel of land in south suburban Lynwood. The land, purchased from the nonprofit Conservation Fund, lies along Deer Creek and was once farmland at Glenwood-Dyer Rd. and Ridge Rd. As a preserve, it will protect the floodplain and its ecosystem from development and holds…