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When LaToya Baines landed in an Illinois jail over a decade ago, everyone there thought she was crazy, she says. She didn’t leave her cell, and she didn’t speak to anyone. “I’m an emotional person,” she says, “so when I went to prison, you can’t really have emotions. Like, you have other people dictating your life,...

CHICAGO — The cane-wielding suspect charged in connection with 9-year-old Elijah Flores’ death was chasing a 22-year-old, who was with the boy, following a robbery, documents state. Flores was on a CTA Green Line train along with his mother’s boyfriend, a 22-year-old man, on Aug. 10. Michael Korosa, 52, a convicted...

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Nabil Abzal, 63, was found in the water on the shore of Lake Michigan.

The Uvalde Foundation for Kids announced it is launching safety patrols in some Chicago neighborhoods following the Labor Day weekend violence.

Nationwide — Tia Bell, a 27-year-old African American mother of nine children from Chicago, was shot and killed in the East Garfield Park neighborhood. She was among three people killed in separate shootings on the city’s West Side. The attack happened around 10:47 p.m. on Thursday on West...

Chicago police are investigating after four young children were found home alone.

Park Forest, IL—(ENEWSPF)— These reports are from the most recent batch we received from Park Forest Police. We will publish a few a day. They cover incidents from July 28 through August 19, 2025. Included here are two reports of DUI, domestic battery, and driving with a suspended license. In the first DUI incident,...

A convicted felon charged in the death of a 9-year-old boy after a fall at a downtown CTA station last month is out of jail awaiting trial.

A Northwestern professor is missing, according to Evanston police. Nina Kraus was last seen on Labor Day morning.