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PEMBROKE TOWNSHIP, Ill. - A man and a woman were arrested in connection with a dog fighting ring in suburban Chicago. Kankakee County Sheriff's deputies executed a search warrant over the weekend at a property in Pembroke Township. Billy Walker, 45, was charged with two counts of animal torture, two...

At least 20 people were injured in a crash involving two CTA buses on the city's West Side, fire officials said. Police said a bus driver was among nine people hospitalized.

POSEN, Ill. - A freight train derailed Thursday morning in south suburban Posen. The derailment happened around 9 a.m. near 140 Street and Seeley Avenue, where at least a dozen railcars could be seen lying on the ground next to the tracks. What we don't know:. There is no word...

CHICAGO - A 15-year-old boy was shot in the face Thursday morning in Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood. The shooting happened around 3:20 a.m. near the intersection of 48th Street and Calumet Avenue, according to police. Officers found a 15-year-old boy on the ground with a gunshot wound to the face. Paramedics...

After a couple who lived in the Chicago area for decades disappeared months after moving to Mexico City, their friends and family are calling upon U.S. authorities to intervene. Guillermo Jafett Hidalgo Ortiz, 57, and Zafar Padamsee Mawani, 56, both disappeared on May 20 while living in Tlalpan, one of...

Crews battled a fire at a chemical plant in the west suburbs Wednesday evening, officials said. Air quality testing showed no impact from the fire, but residents were briefly told to shelter in place as a precaution.

More than one-third of the people on electronic monitoring for shoplifting cases in Cook County have gone missing, according to newly released data from Chief Judge Charles Beach. So have a quarter of the robbery defendants. Those are just a couple of the details revealed in a new report issued as part of Beach’s campa

The shooting took place just after 7 a.m. Friday morning at Franciscan Hospital in Michigan City, Indiana.

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CHICAGO — Mayor Brandon Johnson will face questions on Wednesday following two “teen takeover” incidents that resulted in dozens of arrests and left several officers injured. Over the holiday weekend, two large gatherings devolved into chaos. The first occurred early Sunday morning in the 1200 block of South Loomis Str