Chicago IL

These Logan Square renters are trying to use Chicago’s new law to buy their building before the sale changes everything.

A 66-year-old man who was convicted of first-degree murder as a juvenile 50 years ago is now accused of beating and stabbing his 88-year-old mother to death and hiding her body behind a bookcase in the basement of their Far South Side home. Kevan Works was ordered detained on Friday...

Chicago police were searching for a man armed with an axe who damaged several Chicago firefighters' vehicles outside a fire station in the city's Englewood neighborhood. At around 6 a.m. on Friday, Chicago police were called to Chicago Fire Department Engine Company 84, near West 59th Street and South Lafayette Avenue, after damage was reported to seven vehicles. Patrick Quane, a spokesman for the...

A suspect fired into a crowd on the South Side, injuring a teenager and two men on Friday night, Chicago police said.

There’s a place where your entire lunch budget goes further than a politician’s promise, and it involves more mustard than you’ve ever seen on a single hot dog. Joey’s Red Hots in Chicago proves that the best things in life aren’t free, but they’re pretty close at under ten bucks.

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...