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We’ve been writing about Leonard Johnson for so long that his first published mugshot didn’t have any facial tattoos. Times, and his face, have changed. This is now our fifth story about Johnson since 2018, and it will probably be the last for a while. He was sentenced to seven years in prison this week for robbing a p

Brookfield police arrested a 59-year-old Roselle man on Sept. 8 for domestic battery. Around 1 p.m., an officer was dispatched to the 4000 block of Blanchan Avenue on a report of a domestic battery in which the complainant said the man had hit her in the face and told dispatchers he reportedly had mental health issues.

Ten protesters were maced by ICE agents outside an immigration facility in a western suburb of Chicago on Saturday, village officials said, leaving two hospitalized. Around 2:30 p.m., federal agents sprayed 10 people with mace as they protested outside the Broadview ICE facility located at 1930 Beach St. in Broadview,

Buckwheat pierogi and mushroom with mint sauce are not the kind of thing you expect to stumble across in a Chicago suburb strip of Devon Avenue. Yet a small family-run Polish kitchen in Illinois has quietly turned handmade dumplings into a weekend tradition for hundreds of loyal fans. Regulars swear...

A man died after a car crashed into a light pole early Saturday morning on the Far South Side.

Steven Wade, 46, has been sentenced to 100 years in prison after a jury convicted him on 10 felony counts arising from a 2023 South Shore confrontation with Chicago police. The sentence resolves that prosecution, but Wade still faces a separate first-degree murder case in the killing of Bridgette Myles, 58.

Popular young rapper BloodHound Q50 was killed on recently in Chicago, according to multiple reports. CWB Chicago reported that the 22-year-old, whose real name was Mikqual Cooper, was ambushed by six gunmen who fired more than 50 shots at a gas station in Fuller Park. The rapper was hit in the chest and shoulder and d

Have you ever imagined a world where the haunting yips of coyotes echo louder than a cat’s gentle meow in our city streets? It sounds almost mythical, but for many urban areas across the United States, this is the new reality. The once-elusive coyote, a symbol of wild, untamed America, is now thriving in places … The

A long-abandoned house at 120th Street and Indiana Avenue is getting new life as Chicago's first Cop House, a community-based initiative designed to foster public safety by addressing some of the issues that can lead to violence.

A teenage girl was critically injured in a West Side shooting early Saturday morning, Chicago police said.