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A 1-year-old boy has died after falling from an apartment building Friday afternoon in Chicago’s Edgewater neighborhood, authorities confirmed. According to police, the child fell from the fourth floor of an apartment building in the 5800 block of North Sheridan Road on the city’s North Side. Emergency responders...

Several hundred people came to the Unitarian Church of Evanston on Sunday afternoon to denounce the tactics of the Department of Homeland Security and remember Renee Nicole Good, who was fatally shot by federal agents last week in Minneapolis. “We mourn the passing of Renee Nicole Good. We try to...

The I-Team has been covering squatting cases for years, and Lashawn Rankine is a name that has come up in three alleged squatting cases.

A man with a long history of randomly attacking people in the Loop has pleaded guilty to viciously, randomly attacking a man with a pipe in the heart of downtown, but despite that history, the resolution of the case will not require him to spend any time in prison. Around...

The Chicago Police Department is actively seeking information to help identify a suspect in a fatal shooting that took place in May of last year on the Near South Side. The incident, which occurred in the early hours of May 22, 2023, resulted in a homicide in the 2200 block of S. State St, as reported by the Chicago...

The Better Business Bureau of Chicago and Northern Illinois released its annual top scams.

A man has been sentenced to 27 years in prison for murdering a nursing student he met on Snapchat while he was AWOL from a pending felony DUI case. Richard Chavez, 28, of Oak Park, has pleaded guilty to the murder of 20-year-old Charisma Ehresman three years ago, according to court records.

Top Stories This Week: Chicagoland’s Week In Review. The top news in Chicago today highlights serious safety concerns on our roads and public transit, alongside a contentious community issue in Joliet. Recent days have seen tragic fatal crashes in the suburbs, a violent stabbing at a busy downtown CTA station, and...

An intersection in a northwestern suburb of Chicago remained closed Saturday hours after a pedestrian was struck by a driver, authorities said. Around 6:26 a.m., driver struck a pedestrian at the intersection of South Cumberland Avenue and Peterson Avenue in Park Ridge, police said. Park Ridge Police said the...

(The Center Square) – A grassroots Chicago group is calling for a forensic audit of the city’s entire public school system after a scathing report by the Chicago Board of Education Office of the Inspector General. The OIG’s recently-released annual report details falsified federal grant applications, false reports on...