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A 17-year-old boy found lying in the middle of a South Side street overnight had been shot multiple times, Chicago police said, but detectives are still trying to determine exactly when the shooting occurred. Nobody called 911 to report gunfire in the area. And the ShotSpotter gunfire detection system that once covered

OAK LAWN, Ill. (WGN) — A Missouri man is accused of traveling to Illinois and killing his ex-wife inside an Oak Lawn home. According to Oak Lawn police, at around 1:10 p.m. on April 5, officers were called to a home in the 9400 South block of 53rd Court for a well-being check. Police said […]

Investigators later found that a Chevrolet Silverado was the alleged vehicle that struck and killed the victim.

Social media influencers are emerging as a potential force in the upcoming mayoral race, even as Mayor Brandon Johnson has yet to announce whether he will seek reelection.

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An immigration attorney's promise of a pathway to citizenship for tens of thousands of people never materialized, according to a new lawsuit. She had an office in the west suburbs, a multi-million-dollar condo in Chicago and a pink private jet.

A Riverdale man is facing a felony gun charge after police say a road-rage confrontation on I-57 turned into a shot fired at another vehicle, with investigators identifying and arresting a suspect within days. The case resurfaced after the July 29 Facebook post from Illinois State Police, although the arrest...

A teenage girl who was kidnapped outside a Chicago movie theatre at the age of 15 has been found alive four years later, with authorities saying she'd been sexually and physically abused while being held as a captive in a Virginia house by 37-year-old Owen Anderson.

Shavonne Worthy said she visited her mother's grave at Oakridge-Glen Oaks Cemetery in Hillside and found an empty hole where the headstone had stood for nearly 10 years — and the cemetery's new owner told her it was removed intentionally.

A missing 61-year-old Chicago man was found hospitalized after an apparent hit-and-run crash, bringing both relief and concern to the close-knit group of neighbors who had been searching for him.