Chicago IL

After two years of work to crack the encryption on a murder suspect’s phone, Chicago police finally gained access and discovered a trove of Google searches revealing his efforts to conceal the crime. “How long does it take for an unburied body to decompose?” the man searched shortly after...

CHICAGO (WGN) — Two people were shot early Monday morning in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood, according to Chicago police. Officers responded to the 5500 block of S. Wentworth following reports of a shooting. Police said that two male victims were inside a vehicle driving westbound when an unknown offender opened...

A Calumet City man has been arrested and charged with the murder of a 40-year-woman while she was getting off a private bus early Saturday morning in Fuller Park on the city's South Side.

Chicago police said a man was robbed at gunpoint on a CTA Red Line train.

A 23-year-old man who was shot in Rogers Park on Monday night is no stranger to Chicago police. CPD said the man arrived at St. Francis Hospital in Evanston around 10 p.m. with a gunshot wound to his right leg. Investigators determined he had been shot minutes earlier in the 7300 block of North Winchester Avenue,...

A Chicago-area family says immigration agents arrested their father, Ruben Torres, in Niles over the weekend.

Police said all westbound I-80 lanes were closed in the south suburbs on Monday amid an investigation.

Well known traffic anchor Roz Varon is hosting a fundraiser at the Des Plaines Theatre Tuesday for a scholarship established in the memory of her late daughter.

A fire broke out Monday morning at an apartment in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood.

It’s not every day you encounter a Tibetan Mastiff strolling through a city, let alone wandering alone in distress. Pedestrians in Chicago, Illinois, were recently met with a rare and heartbreaking sight of a massive Tibetan Mastiff roaming the streets in a condition that spoke volumes. This dog, later...