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Tens of thousands of cans of Red Bull worth more than $100,000 that were stolen from a suburban warehouse were recovered by sheriff's police this week, authorities said. The recovered cans were part of a shipment of Red Bull worth $300,000 that was reported stolen on Oct. 7 from Joliet, according to the Cook County Sheriff's Department.

Joey Cusumano may be the last Chicago mobster in Vegas. When "Joey London," as he was nicknamed, died recently at age 90, he had survived tumultuous years that saw his bosses sent to prison, his mentor Tony Spilotro murdered and buried in an Indiana cornfield. A few years later, Cusumano...

Niko Fuentes, 33, died after being shot in the back in Bridgeview in September. The family says they're still waiting on more information from the police.

Tyrone Jenkins, 37, has been charged with two felony counts of aggravated battery following an October 13 attack on a 27-year-old woman at a CTA station on Chicago's Far South Side.

A man was fatally shot in the head on the city's Far South Side on Tuesday evening, Chicago police said.

BRIDGEVIEW - Red Bull may "give you wings," but a stolen shipment of the energy drink couldn't escape authorities in suburban Chicago. The Cook County Sheriff's Office recovered more than $100,000 worth of Red Bull after a shipment valued at about $300,000 was reported stolen from Joliet earlier this month.

LOGAN SQUARE — Whole Foods is coming to Logan Square. A Whole Foods Market is coming to the former Family Dollar at 2280 N. Milwaukee Ave., which closed in 2023 and has been vacant since. The popular high-end grocery store is in development at the site, a company spokesperson confirmed Tuesday. The spokesperson did not have additional details to share.

Voters in 11 Illinois counties will decide next week whether to explore separating from Cook County and forming a new state. Why it matters: The movement to split Illinois in two continues to gain traction, fueled by longstanding political and cultural divisions between Chicago and downstate communities. By the numbers: Voters in 33 of Illinois' 102 counties have already approved similar nonbinding referendums . If all 11 counties approve the measures on Nov. 3, that number would climb to 44, or

A man has been given a 20-year prison sentence for stabbing a Lincoln Park resident during a seemingly random home invasion that prosecutors said was an attempted murder. The 25-year-old victim and his 28-year-old girlfriend were sleeping in their home in the 2000 block of North Clifton around 11:30 p.m. in June 2024 when Devion Allen, now 27, entered the residence, officials said.

New class-action lawsuits filed in Cook County, Illinois, allege that food delivery robots from Coco Robotics and Serve Robotics secretly scan people’s faces and hands. The suits claim the robots collect biometric data and share it with artificial intelligence companies without anyone’s permission. As detailed by BroBible , the lawsuits argue the companies violated Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act. The law requires companies to give written notice before collecting biometric data, exp