Current local time in USA – Illinois – Chicago. Get Chicago's weather and area codes, time zone and DST. Explore Chicago's sunrise and sunset, moonrise and moonset. Historic, present and future dates for daylight saving time and clock changes. Time changes between years 2025 and 2029 in USA – Illinois – Chicago are shown here. Exact time in Chicago time zone now. Official Chicago timezone and time change dates for year 2026. All counties and cities of the state have the same time zone, there are no exceptions. Illinois is observing daylight savings so there are two different clocks depending on the time of the year. U.S. Time Zone Map and guide – view the live current time across all 11 U.S. time zones, including mainland and territories, with a detailed time zone map graphic and current DST schedules.