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Seven people were shot, two fatally, in a shooting in the Back of the Yards neighborhood Friday morning, Chicago police said.

A truck was engulfed in flames Thursday evening on I-294 in the west suburbs, shutting down multiple lanes, Illinois State Police said.

The man killed in a shooting at a suburban Amazon building was identified by authorities hours after the incident unfolded Thursday morning. The Cook County Medical Examiner identified 27-year-old Travion R. Taylor was the man who was shot and killed just after 9 a.m. inside a parking garage that is only accessible to

For a few moments Thursday, hundreds of people in La Grange caught a glimpse of history. They gathered along freight train tracks on the east side of the village to see the famed Big Boy Number 4014 locomotive steaming through town. Folks began gathering around 10 a.m. to catch a...

Two teenagers are facing charges after investigators say they recovered more than $5,200 in cosmetics and other merchandise stolen from an Ulta Beauty in Norridge, along with a stolen car that tried to make a run for it on the interstate. According to Cook County sheriff's police, a group fled...

The Illinois State Police have arrested 29-year-old Emmanuel C. Mosley of Riverdale for a road rage shooting that took place on I-57 in late May, in which the victim was not injured.

The man accused of attacking and sexually assaulting a woman at a Northwest Side forest preserve on May 23 has been linked to the crime by DNA evidence that prosecutors say places him at the scene at odds of 14 septillion to one. That was one of several new details...

CHICAGO — A Chicago man accused of shooting a bystander during a fight on the city’s West Side is now facing a felony charge. Authorities say 30-year-old Michael Cutler Jr. has been charged with one felony count of aggravated battery with the discharge of a firearm. The charge stems from an incident that unfolded on […

Federal prosecutors have charged two men with kidnapping a DePaul University student and taking him on a terrifying crosstown Red Line ride during which they repeatedly threatened to kill him while making electronic bank transfers and issuing ransom demands to his friends and family. CWB Chicago first reported on the..

Wesley Freeman, of Wheaton in Chicago, is now focused on his recovery after having a stroke in March