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Told her Social Security funds were being used to support terrorism, a widow was directed to buy $700,000 in gold — but an alert store owner intervened before crooks could make off with her money, records show.

Severe weather devastated parts of Illinois, Wisconsin, and Missouri on Wednesday as thunderstorms brought destructive wind gusts and heavy rainfall to the region. Authorities in all three states have reported significant storm damage, with wind gusts reaching up to 90 mph.

Cook County prosecutors announced they do not have sufficient evidence to file criminal charges in the March shooting death of 16-year-old Lilly Bova. The Cook County State's Attorney's Office said it cannot meet its burden of proof based on the evidence gathered by investigators. The decision comes weeks after Lilly's

Chicago's inspector general has opened an ethics investigation into a deputy commissioner in the Department of Aviation, according to a ChicagoLIVE video posted June 9. The brief clip offers almost no detail about what rules were allegedly broken or who the official is, leaving many of the central questions unanswered

Chicago police are investigating after a burning cross was seen in Grant Park on Tuesday afternoon.

Manuel Alberto Cortes Cuan, a Mexican national with an extensive criminal record, was sentenced to 14 months in federal prison for unlawfully re-entering the U.S. after being deported 5 times.

Two people were arrested Monday after an adult woman’s car was taken at gunpoint on the 700 block of Bluff City Boulevard in Elgin, then tracked across several suburbs before officers finally stopped it in Chicago. Police say the vehicle was followed through multiple communities and that both occupants were taken into

Tatiana Squire, a single mother in Riverdale, says a property tax bill of more than $16,000 has turned her dream of homeownership into a financial crisis. Critics of Cook County’s assessment system, including incoming Assessor Patrick Hynes and engineer Vaughn Harrison, say her bill appears to be an extreme outlier and

Forty years ago last weekend, crowds turned out for the Chicago Blues Festival — an event studded with a roster of stars for a spectacle that's still talked about today.

A man in Chicago, Illinois, attended what he believed was his friend’s wedding, even going as far as shaking a few hands. Little did he know that he had attended the wrong wedding, and he only found out once he saw the bride walking down the aisle. Of course, the woman was a stranger to him.