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Two Chicago men, 23-year-old Jonheym Jonathan Andrews and 23-year-old Steve E. Mitchell, are facing multiple felony charges after police say a theft at the Merrillville Kohl’s store escalated into a wrong-way pursuit on I-65 that ended in a crash and foot chase, according to Lake County probable cause affidavits....

You don’t exactly wake up thinking you’ll hear something straight out of a Jurassic Park scene echoing down your neighborhood. But that’s the kind of wild moment Chicago resident Judie Schwager found herself in one day. She was inside her home, minding her own business, when a...

Cook County leaders are moving ahead with a new guaranteed income program just as Chicago faces a massive budget hole and ongoing complaints about crime, taxes, and basic services.

In Ruben Lujano's final moments alive, his family says he was out of his car, trying to help others after getting into a crash on I-57. That's when, witnesses say, a speeding car hit and killed the 50-year-old grandfather and two other men on his daughter's birthday.

These days, even the faintest hint of ICE agents being nearby can create an instant wave of fear in many communities. While most people’s instinct is to avoid these situations entirely, two teenagers from Chicago, Illinois, decided to respond in a very different way. Instead of running from ICE agents, they began...

A 28-year-old man was critically wounded late Wednesday morning when a gunman stepped out of a vehicle and opened fire as the victim walked along a Roseland block on Chicago’s Far South Side. The shooting happened at about 10:32 a.m. in the 10700 block of South Wentworth Avenue, where the man was hit multiple times...

In Chicago’s war on rats, it looks like feral cats either lack a certain killer instinct or they’re extremely picky eaters, according to a new study from Lincoln Park Zoo’s Urban Wildlife Institute. That’s probably a good thing for the cats. Maureen Murray, a wildlife disease...

A Chicago budget stalemate could drag on for several more weeks. As Mayor Johnson is digging in his heels on his plan with a corporate head tax, more than half of City Council members seem to be growing frustrated.

A man who twice robbed the same South Side market while he was on electronic monitoring for a pending burglary case has been sentenced to seven years in prison. Prosecutors said Timothy Bowden, 29, committed both robberies while he was out on “essential movement” privileges granted to people on electronic monitoring...

Quadajah Johnson, 31, of Des Plaines, has been charged with first-degree murder for the fatal shooting of 31-year-old Romeca Meeks-Blackmon, who was shot in the face after a physical altercation on September 8.