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Police issued a warning about business burglaries on Chicago's South and Southwest sides.

One of two men charged with a high-profile, violent carjacking caught on video in the Beverly neighborhood has been sentenced to 14½ years in federal prison, officials announced Friday. U.S. District Judge Sunil R. Harjani sentenced Damarri Conner, 23, after Conner pleaded guilty to federal carjacking and firearm charges.

ILLINOIS - Two suspects were arrested for separate DUI crashes that injured multiple people, including a trooper, according to the Illinois State Police. On March 30, a trooper was patrolling Homan Avenue and Jackson Boulevard looking for a Volkswagen connected to a Chicago criminal investigation. When the trooper entered the intersection with emergency lights on, the Volkswagen in question struck the vehicle.

Police have since identified the body as 26-year-old Alexis Ramirez of Elk Grove Village.

A man is accused of killing his 88-year-old mother and wrapping her body in a rug before it was discovered by police cadaver dogs days after she was last seen alive, prosecutors said in court Friday. Emotional family members of the woman shouted in court as her son appeared before...

Two employees were injured in a fire in an industrial park in Bedford Park Friday morning, fire officials said.

The Hyde Park community is honoring the life of a woman who safely guided generations of students to and from school.

LOGAN SQUARE — A woman found a hidden camera inside the bathroom of a popular Logan Square thrift store, police said. A 33-year-old woman was shopping at Village Discount Outlet, 2032 N. Milwaukee Ave., Sunday afternoon when she went to use the store’s bathroom and “noticed a strange object that appeared to be a camera” that was “pointing at her from under the...

Source: Administrative Office of the United States Courts, District of Illinois. A suburban Chicago man is facing a federal robbery charge after prosecutors say a planned cocaine buy in Ford Heights turned into a violent ambush on an undercover FBI task force officer. Authorities allege the man and a juvenile struck the officer with a firearm, stole $10,000 in government funds set aside for...

CHICAGO - A man was shot during a robbery late Thursday night in Chicago’s Chatham neighborhood. The shooting happened around 10:35 p.m. in the 8000 block of South Drexel Avenue. Police said the 24-year-old man was in an alley when someone approached him from behind with a handgun and...