Chicago IL

A Lakeview man was beaten and robbed outside his condominium building Saturday night after a group of about eight attackers, believed to be juveniles, approached him and asked to be let inside, according to police and a witness account. The attack occurred around 9:30 p.m. in the 2900 block of...

Update: Dec. 22 at 2:31 p.m. The Root previously reported that cellphone footage captured a Chicago mother and her young son being followed home and ambushed by a group of Orville T. Bright School students in November. Now, just over a month after the incident went viral, angered the community and had the internet...

Chicago police are warning of a string of forcible burglaries in which two to four suspects arrive in a stolen vehicle, use hammers or other blunt objects to break in, steal items including safes, deposit boxes, poker machines and suspected drugs, then flee. The suspects are described as two to...

Customs and Border Protection officials at Chicago O'Hare International Airport seized some very odd items from a passenger's suitcase last week.

Cook County Sheriff's investigators last week recovered 12 tons of a stolen substance with stimulant properties from a warehouse in Chicago's suburbs.

An 18-year-old man was apprehended and charged with the armed robbery of a 19-year-old woman on the city’s South Side earlier this year. Edrick Richardson, of Chicago, was arrested this week in connection with the alleged armed robbery that occurred in Hyde Park in September. The Chicago Police Department...

CHICAGO — An 18-year-old man was shot and killed on the West Side Sunday night. The shooting happened in the 3800 block of West West End, located next to Garfield Park, at around 7:40 p.m. Police said the 18-year-old sustained a gunshot wound to the chest and self-transported to Loretto Hospital where he later died....

Armed robbers hit a 7-Eleven store in Chicago's Norwood Park neighborhood early Monday.

The attack occurred near Orville T. Bright Elementary School just after students were released for the day. Seven minors have been charged in connection with an attack on a mother and her children in Chicago. The juveniles charged in the crime range in age from 10 to 13. The group...

Picture this: a quiet neighborhood suddenly turns chaotic as drivers clash in a shocking road rage incident. What happens next will leave you speechless.