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CHICAGO (WLS) — Some local businesses were raising concerns Friday about the impact of tariffs on their operating costs.This is National Small Business Week.ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24/7. Click here to watchSome Illinois Democrats are doing their best to keep up the pressure on the Trump Administration, hoping to bring about change.The focus was on the Milwaukee Avenue Corridor, which is home to a number of small businesses. Many are feeling the tariff pinch and hoping things get worked out soon.At the family-run Magnifico Coffee in Avondale, they are all about a great cup of joe.”Coffee is part of…
CHICAGO (WLS) — It’s Mother’s Day weekend, and, on “Windy City Weekend,” Val Warner and Ryan Chiaverini welcomed in a studio audience to celebrate all the mothers out there.They started with a series of giveaways.ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24/7. Click here to watchFirst, Chiaverini presented Warner with a bouquet of flowers from Flowers for Dreams. Audience members also got free flowers from this online store, which offers up same-day deliveries. A portion of all sales go to various charities.Then, they handed out mini-bundt cakes to the audience, from Nothing Bundt Cakes. Nothing Bundt Cakes is celebrating moms with the…
LOS ANGELES (KABC) — When elite athletes from every corner of the world travel to Los Angeles for the 2028 Olympic Games, two stadiums will be taking center stage.The opening and closing ceremonies will happen at the L.A. Memorial Coliseum and SoFi Stadium in Inglewood.LA28 will also stage events across the city and county at various venues, including Dodger Stadium, the USC Sports Center and the Peacock Theater in downtown L.A.From baseball at Dodger Stadium to volleyball in Anaheim, LA28 has released its list of venues chosen for the 2028 Olympic Games.”Our city and our country are going through challenging…
CHICAGO (WLS) — Chicago police said Tuesday the man fatally shot by police in a Grand Crossing assisted-living facility early Monday morning was involved in a homicide there before he was killed.Keith Harding, 58, was found dead in the 1400-block of East 75th Street just after 6:30 a.m. Monday, police said.ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24/7. Click here to watchHe was found with cuts to his arm and neck in a fifth-floor unit of the Grand Regency of Jackson Park, police said. His death is considered a homicide.Hours earlier Monday Chicago police said they responded to a report of a…
ByABC7 Chicago Digital Team Tuesday, May 6, 2025 3:09PMA fourth case of measles has been reported in Illinois for this year, according to an Illinois Department of Public Health tracking dashboard.CHICAGO (WLS) — A sixth case of measles has been reported in Illinois for this year.ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24/7. Click here to watchFour of the cases were reported in Southern Illinois and two in Cook County, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health.RELATED | New measles dashboard allows public to track vaccination rates in Illinois schoolsOne of the new cases was confirmed in the Franklin-Williamson Bi-County area.Officials…
Announcement comes after Jan Schakowsky announced she will not run for reelectionByABC7 Chicago Digital Team Tuesday, May 6, 2025 3:21PMLive streaming newscasts, breaking news, weather & original, local programming.CHICAGO (WLS) — Illinois State Senator Laura Fine has announced Tuesday she is running for Congress for the Illinois 9th District.The announcement comes one day after incumbent Jan Schakowsky announced that she would not be running for reelection.ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24/7. Click here to watchIn her announcement, Fine said, “Today, I’m excited to announce my campaign for Congress in Illinois’ 9th District. With our rights and freedoms under attack by…
LOS ANGELES (KABC) — UCLA is among many California universities reeling from extraordinary cuts to scientific funding, but what if our state had its own version of the National Institutes of Health?”California’s economy is massive,” said Dr. Otto Yang, an cellular immunology researcher with the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.California recently became the fourth largest economy in the world, surpassing Japan and Germany. Driving the success is research and innovation.”For every dollar spent to support research funding, about two-and-a- half dollars is returned to the economy,” said Yang, who said scientific study pays for itself.Last year, United For…
LOS ANGELES (KABC) — A devastated family is seeking justice for a 13-year-old boy after learning a backlog of cases at the Los Angeles County DA’s Office may have allowed the boy’s alleged killer to continue his crimes.Oscar Omar Hernandez was found dead last month on the side of a road in Oxnard.His family said he boarded a Metrolink train to Palmdale to help a soccer coach at a complex there. When he didn’t return home that night, the family reported him missing.Since then, Mario Garcia Aquino, 43, has been charged with killing the boy. Prosecutors claim Garcia Aquino killed…
LOS ANGELES (CNS) — The 2026 Los Angeles Marathon has been rescheduled to avoid a conflict with the Academy Awards, Mayor Karen Bass announced Thursday.Organizers of both events had announced their 2026 editions would beheld on March 15 which would have caused logistical conflicts.Bass disclosed on Thursday night she stepped “in to mediate,” with organizers of the two events, leading to an agreement that the Oscars would remain on March 15 while the marathon will take place “on a date in March 2026 that will be announced in the coming days,” according to a joint statement from Murphy Reinschreiber, chief…
Sunday, May 11, 2025 11:12PMA teenage boy was arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of a 12-year-old boy at a park in Compton, authorities say.COMPTON, Calif. (KABC) — A teenage boy was arrested Sunday morning in connection with the fatal shooting of a 12-year-old boy at a park in Compton, authorities said.The shooting was reported just before 4 p.m. at Fig/Oleander Park Friday afternoon, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.The victim was found shot in the stomach and first responders performed first-aid measures, but the boy later died at a hospital.Authorities said investigators determined that the suspect…