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CHICAGO - A 14-year-old boy was shot and injured in a South Side home on Tuesday afternoon. What we know: — The shooting happened in the 11200 block of S. Hermosa Ave. inMorgan Park, according to the Chicago Police Department. Officers responded to the home around 1:12 p.m. and...

Dan Davis' family says the 59-year-old father was involved in a car crash about 1 mile away from the bar he works at and may have suffered a head injury.

The vests police officers wear are good for about five years, if not damaged, before they're recommended to get a new one.

A Hammond man, 31-year-old Joshua Ojeda-Rivera, faces multiple felony charges after a violent altercation at the FairBridge Inn on Louisiana Street left another man hospitalized in Chicago. Police were notified early on December 6, 2025, when a stabbing victim arrived at Southlake Methodist Hospital with Ojeda-Rivera...

Federal prosecutors allege that a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agent operating in Chicago is a “serial rapist” who used his position in law enforcement to sexually assault and rob at least four women at gunpoint throughout 2022. Luis Uribe, 44, of Pingree Grove, Illinois, was arrested Tuesday...

Two men held at the Cook County Jail died over the weekend, leaving relatives and jail watchdogs demanding to know what went wrong inside one of the country’s largest lockups. In separate incidents, one detainee was found unresponsive inside the jail’s residential treatment unit and later pronounced dead at a...

Chicago police said the victim was shot on Monday night while standing near a sidewalk in the Lawndale neighborhood.

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The Chicago Public Schools Inspector General has reportedly found $14.5 million in “excessive” travel expenses, noting issues with the district’s approval process and use of federal relief funds. The office criticized the lack of accountability in expense approvals and called for stronger oversight to ensure proper...

WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: After trying to dispose of the newborn baby girl's body in a toilet they allegedly left the remains there overnight. The parents of a baby have been accused of trying to dispose of her tiny body by forcing it down the toilet with a plunger. ‌. Investigators say...