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Chicago police are warning South Side residents that an invitation to a party could be a setup for a robbery at gunpoint. A group of armed robbers has been targeting people as they leave parties in the Chatham, Grand Crossing, and Auburn Gresham neighborhoods, police said, hitting victims at least nine times since Febr

Lake Michigan and Huron jumped a stunning 13.4 inches in April, the biggest April rise since record-keeping began in 1918, after rapid snowmelt teamed up with heavy rain. From Milwaukee down to Chicago, shoreline communities are eyeing bluffs, beaches, and basements for signs of erosion and flooding, even as overall la

Attorney General Kwame Raoul is alleging a Cook County woman fraudulently received a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan for more than $20,000 while employed by the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC). The Attorney General’s office charged Jamilah Franklin, 48, of Joliet, with one count of loan fraud of more t

CHICAGO - A family is mourning the loss of a young mother after a deadly shooting during what should have been a routine school pickup last week. Family members said on May 5, Krystal Cruz, 26, was picking up her 16-year-old brother and one of his friends from Peace and Education Coalition High School in the Back of th

The Indiana Porter County Sheriff's Office is searching for the shooter connected to a deadly post-prom party where three teenagers were shot, one of them killed, and one of the surviving victims, 17-year-old Jeremiah Heard, is recovering in the hospital.

Twenty-three people were shot across Chicago this weekend, four of them fatally, according to preliminary information released by the Chicago Police Department. The weekend total marked an increase from the same weekend last year, when 20 people were shot. Saturday was particularly violent, with 16 people shot, making

CHICAGO - Seven people, including three teenage girls, were hurt in a crash Saturday night in Chicago's Belmont Gardens neighborhood. The crash happened around 10:30 p.m. at the intersection of Pulaski Road and Diversey Avenue, according to police. A sedan being driven by a 17-year-old girl tried to turn eastbound...

An ATM was stolen at a smash and grab in Chicago's Archer Heights neighborhood early Monday morning, police said.

A church's front facade partially collapsed during Sunday Mass on the city's South Side, officials said.

Who was the speaker who thanked, among others, "proud and, finally, somewhat financially free parents," along with "drifters and hobos who may have spent the night in the gymnasium" during the Siena Heights University graduation ceremony on Saturday, May 9? It was none other than Dr. William James Paul Murray, aka Bill