Live Illinois News Streams

Chicago sets the tone for local news across Illinois. As the nation's third-largest city, it is a place of big shoulders and big stories, from City Hall and Springfield politics to crime and public safety, the economy of the Loop, and the lake-effect snow and bitter cold that arrive off Lake Michigan every winter. Spring and summer bring their own drama with severe storms and the occasional tornado sweeping across the region.

NewsPlay carries two Chicago heavyweights: WBBM on CBS and FOX 32 Chicago. Their newsrooms cover the neighborhoods and the suburbs, state government downstate in Springfield, transit and traffic, and the deep passions of a great sports town that lives and dies with the Cubs, White Sox, Bears, Bulls, and Blackhawks. When the weather turns wild off the lake, these stations are the ones Chicagoans turn to.

Both stations stream live and free on NewsPlay, with no subscription and no login to worry about. Whether you are in the city, out in the collar counties, or a Midwesterner watching from somewhere warmer, it is an easy way to keep up with the Prairie State.