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The Union Stockyards once made Chicago "hog butcher for the world." More than 50 years after they closed, developers are modernizing the area. Why it matters: While other industrial parts of the city, like Fulton Market and the West Loop, have boomed with development in recent decades, the Stockyards have remained basi

Chicago police have released images of a vehicle wanted in a hit-and-run on the Northwest Side last week. that left a motorcycle driver critically injured.

Chicago police have issued an alert about a person they are seeking in connection with the shooting of a child on the city's South Side.

A man on pretrial release in a felony retail theft case that he picked up while already on pretrial release for another shoplifting charge disappeared from the Cook County chief judge’s electronic monitoring program for 11 days before authorities found him again — in the back yard of Gov. JB Pritzker’s Gold Coast mansi

CHICAGO — When Mildred Jenkins finally found a home at Deborah’s Place, it was one of the best things that ever happened to her. After living in the organization’s shelter for a year, she got her own apartment through the nonprofit’s Permanent Supportive Housing program, which subsidizes long-term housing for people ex

Author Dennis Breo joins Karen Conti to talk about the 60th anniversary of the Richard Speck murders in Chicago, where eight student nurses were killed. Dennis discusses Speck’s family upbringing and relationships, his complicated personality, the crime scene, how one victim, Corazon Amurao, survived, Speck’s defense a

One person was injured and the northbound lanes of I-57 were shut down for several hours in south suburban Harvey following an overnight shooting, according to Illinois State Police.

A man has been charged with trespassing at Illinois Governor JB Pritzker's home in Chicago on the Fourth of July after he allegedly jumped over a fence in the backyard, court documents show.

Illinois State Police investigated a shooting on the I-57 Expressway Monday morning.

Fifteen people were shot, one of them fatally, in gun-controlled Chicago between 11 p.m. Saturday and 6 a.m. Sunday, according to ABC 7. The shooting victim who succumbed to his wounds, a 43-year-old man, was standing outside with another man “in the Logan Square neighborhood’s 1600-block of North Washtenaw Avenue” whe