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The woman who was lit on fire on the CTA Blue Line is now out of the hospital.

CHICAGO - Two men were injured in a Roseland shooting on Saturday, according to police. What we know: — According to police, three men approached two men, a 31-year-old and a 45-year-old, who were standing near the sidewalk in the 10700 block of S. Indiana Avenue around 3:04 p.m.

Chicago landlord Marc Reinisch, the owner behind Rushmore Properties, is staring at a foreclosure suit over the retail block tucked beneath his Gold Coast condo tower at 100 East Walton Place. Special servicer LNR Partners filed the action after the loan on the building hit maturity without payoff, a move that lands...

Hidden away in Chicago is an incredible little chocolate shop that will make you daydream of cocoa day in and day out. This little shop is more than a labor of love-it’s a whole life’s passion all wrapped up into one deliciously chocolatey little truffle of wonderfulness. I’m speaking, of course, of our very own […]

A Friday afternoon commute in Mount Prospect turned deadly when a pedestrian was struck and killed by a Metra Union Pacific Northwest line train, grinding inbound and outbound service to a halt and throwing evening travel into chaos. Officials said the victim was an adult man, though his name has not yet been...

A mother and her boyfriend are facing charges related to the homicide of an 8-year-old boy in a north suburb of Chicago, authorities announced Saturday. Lake County State's Attorney's Office announced 33-year-old Dominique Servant and her 38-year-old boyfriend, Joey L. Ruffin, were each charged with two counts of...

A Des Moines-area fraud case involving a government impersonation scam aimed at an Iowa senior citizen has resulted in a lengthy prison sentence for one offender, state officials said. Sanjeev Kumar, 41, of Owensboro, Kentucky, was sentenced on February 2, 2026, in Jasper County after pleading guilty to aiding a...

Alexis Trader (left) is accused of murder of 63-year-old Nabil Abzal, known as ‘Captain Bill’ (right) Chicago Police Department./Supplied A man has been charged with the murder of a beloved Chicago charter boat captain six months after he was killed. Alexis Trader, 34, was charged with first-degree murder Thursday in...

Cook County Circuit Court Clerk Mariyana Spyropoulos has launched a pilot program for e-Citations, an initiative that allows traffic citations to enter the court system electronically. Electronic citations replace a long-standing manual process in which clerks retyped handwritten, physically delivered tickets into...

The 16-story Godfrey Hotel in River North is staring down a foreclosure complaint that could pry the 221-room property at 127 W. Huron Street away from its current owners. A lending venture led by Quadrum filed suit in Cook County this week, alleging an unpaid balance of about $57.2 million on the senior loan and...