Chicago IL

Prosecutors have charged a 16-year-old boy with eight felony counts in connection with an armed robbery and carjacking that left a young couple staring down the barrel of a gun during a summertime robbery in Lakeview. The charges stem from an incident in the 700 block of West Barry Street...

A man is charged with shooting a Chicago police officer in the chest as the cop tried to stop a violent home invasion in Morgan Park early Sunday morning. The officer survived thanks to his ballistic vest. Darren Brewster, 35, is charged with attempted murder, home invasion, and other felonies.

A man who shot a Lombard police officer will spend decades in prison.

Rensselaer- A Chicago man identified as Davaughn T. Credit, 21, is charged with Level 1 felony child molesting after an 11-year-old girl was tracked to Rensselaer and later disclosed during a forensic interview that Credit put his hand and “private parts”into her vagina, according to a probable cause affidavit filed...

Between 1900 and 1925, a conflict raged along the New York harbors, a war between Irish and Italian gangs to control the lucrative rackets along the busy, expanding waterfront wharves and warehouses. This was the battle between the Italian Sicilian Black Hand Gang and a combination of Irish street gangs...

CHICAGO - A 14-year-old boy was shot and injured in a South Side home on Tuesday afternoon. What we know: — The shooting happened in the 11200 block of S. Hermosa Ave. inMorgan Park, according to the Chicago Police Department. Officers responded to the home around 1:12 p.m. and...

Dan Davis' family says the 59-year-old father was involved in a car crash about 1 mile away from the bar he works at and may have suffered a head injury.

The vests police officers wear are good for about five years, if not damaged, before they're recommended to get a new one.

A Hammond man, 31-year-old Joshua Ojeda-Rivera, faces multiple felony charges after a violent altercation at the FairBridge Inn on Louisiana Street left another man hospitalized in Chicago. Police were notified early on December 6, 2025, when a stabbing victim arrived at Southlake Methodist Hospital with Ojeda-Rivera...

Federal prosecutors allege that a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agent operating in Chicago is a “serial rapist” who used his position in law enforcement to sexually assault and rob at least four women at gunpoint throughout 2022. Luis Uribe, 44, of Pingree Grove, Illinois, was arrested Tuesday...