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A man and two women were shot while inside a car in Chicago's Chatham neighborhood early Saturday morning.

A man who killed a 67-year-old grandfather while stealing his phone in Albany Park has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and received a 20-year sentence, court records show. Relatives remember J. Isabel Castillo as a hardworking, loving man. When he turned 18, he moved to the U.S. from Mexico and...

Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke is rolling out a tightly focused new experiment on Chicago’s West Side that would let some teenage boys swap pretrial detention for school-based support and counseling while their cases move through court. Set to start in early 2026, the pilot targets 13- to...

CHICAGO - An 18-year-old man was arrested and charged in connection with the armed robbery of a 19-year-old woman on the city’s South Side earlier this year. Zedrick Richardson, of Chicago, was arrested this week in connection with the alleged armed robbery back in September in Hyde Park. He...

CHICAGO — A CTA employee in the Second Chance Program was attacked late last month on a train and said management made her wait hours for medical treatment. Diajanese Ringgold, 32, was working as a car servicer apprentice at around 3 p.m. on Nov. 30. Her typical duties are cleaning rail cars and returning lost […]

CHICAGO (WGN) — Another day, another victim. This time, WGN Investigates has learned a woman lost $45,000 in a so-called tap and pay scam, which are relatively new but expanding throughout Chicago. The woman said her incident occurred near Southport and Addison. She was approached by three men who...

Three people were shot inside a moving car on Chicago's South Side early Saturday, police said.

The stage is now set for the full City Council to vote on the entire budget package during Saturday's meeting, but Mayor Johnson insists there's still time to work out some kind of compromise as he tried to reintroduce his corporate head tax plan.

A Chicago man is jailed on allegations he robbed and tried to carjack two women in Lawndale less than a week after a judge ordered him to wear an ankle monitor instead of detaining him on a domestic violence charge. On December 4, prosecutors asked Judge Sabra Ebersole to keep...

CHICAGO - The family of a longtime Chicago street vendor detained by federal agents earlier this week is urgently asking for answers, saying they are deeply concerned about his health and do not know where he is being held. 70-yr-old Engineer Designed Winter Hat for Global Use.insiliiso |. What we...