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The families of two teenagers who were shot, one of them fatally, in Chicago's Douglass Park are now suing the park district and the suspect.

A north suburban woman is sharing her story after being randomly attacked while walking to Union Station in Chicago’s Loop. The vicious assault happened near Washington and Franklin last month, and the victim told NBC Chicago she was knocked out by a man who police said has done this before to other women.

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Both victims were taken to Mt. Sinai Hospital in critical condition, police said.

On the streets of downtown Chicago, a sudden and brutal attack has left Kathleen Miles, a mother of 11 and grandmother to seven, with severe injuries and brought to light a harrowing pattern of violence. Miles, who makes a weekly trip to her job in the Loop, was walking to Union Station on Aug. 19 when she was...

A South Side man with a history of gun convictions is accused of gunning down a small dog on his porch and then trying to hide the crime, prosecutors said in a detention petition. Andre Carothers, 26, appeared before Judge Susana Ortiz on charges that included being a habitual criminal...

Dontrell Cooper, 30, was charged with two felony counts of attempted first-degree murder.

A 14-year-old boy was shot in the head while inside a home on the South Side Tuesday night, Chicago police said.

A Venezuelan migrant is charged with first-degree murder, accused of stalking a group of boys through Canaryville and opening fire without provocation, killing a 15-year-old and wounding a 12-year-old in a chilling daylight ambush. Daniel Navas Maiver, 19, was arrested within hours of the attack. Cops allegedly found...

Here’s what Chicago needs: Safe, consistent, high-speed public transportation that darts around the city like a flock of spirited birds. Truly cross-neighborhood travel, where you don’t have to go downtown to transfer for every route, and buses and trains run 24 hours a day, seven days a week.