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A jury has awarded a former CTA employee $425,000 in damages.

(Townhall) — The owner of a Chicago grocery store has been sentenced to three and a half years in federal prison for fraudulently redeeming millions of dollars in benefits under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children. Yousef Abu...

A statue honoring fallen Chicago Police Officer Ella French was unveiled Sunday on what would have been her 34th birthday. "I could not have imagined a better birthday gift for her," said Elizabeth French, Ella French's mother. Ella French was fatally shot, and her partner, Carlos Yanez, Jr., was critically...

A suspect has been arrested and charged with murder in the shooting death of a 15-year-old boy in Chicago’s Canaryville neighborhood last week. According to authorities, the 15-year-old and a 12-year-old were involved in a physical altercation in a vacant lot in the 600 block of West 47th Street Thursday afternoon...

A 52-year-old Chicago man has been charged in the death of a 9-year-old boy, after a fall at a downtown CTA station last month.

A 32-year-old man was shot during an armed robbery in a West Ridge alley overnight, police said. The victim was in the 6100 block of North Kedzie Avenue around 1 a.m. when two men approached and demanded his belongings, according to a Chicago police statement. After taking his property, the offenders opened fire,...

The Chicago Police Department has issued a bulletin for a missing person, Esmeralda Zela, a 48-year-old woman, last seen over a week ago near her home in the 5200 block of W Winona St. According to the CPD bulletin, Zela was last in contact on August 21 and has not been seen since. Community members in the Edgewater...

When Dr. Edda L. Fields-Black steps onto the stage at Chicago’s 40th Annual Printers Row Lit Fest this September, she will carry with her more than a Pulitzer Prize-winning book. She will bring the voices of hundreds of freedom seekers whose stories have long been buried in the footnotes of history.

In each incident, police said, the offenders targeted people walking alone and wearing gold chains or necklaces.

The former Lincoln Park High School principal and assistant principal who were abruptly fired in 2020 and placed on the "do not hire" list have reached a settlement with the Chicago Board of Education.