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An Iraqi-born Chicago man has now been convicted of using ISIS social media platforms to recruit violent jihadists after his arrest in 2018, federal officials announced.

Scammers are charging people $20 to use private lots and even free street parking spots, when they have no authority to do so.

CHICAGO — At least 276 children aged 16 and younger have been shot across Chicago between January 2021 and early 2022, according to a CBS analysis of police data. The tragic number includes 43 children under the age of 13, underscoring a violent crisis that continues to impact some of the city’s most vulnerable...

CHICAGO - Two men were shot Wednesday night in the Lawndale neighborhood on Chicago's West Side. The men, 34 and 48, were standing outside when a dark-colored car approached in the 1600 block of South Komensky Avenue around 9 p.m., police said. A suspect got out of the car and...

The Damen Silos' new owner is planning to tear them down, but a coalition of preservationists and community groups say that would amount to destroying part of Chicago's history.

From February 2024 through May 2025, the Chicago suburbs experience over 115 overnight burglaries on local retailers. Demario M. Brown, 26, of Chicago; Dequane J. Hall, 29, of Chicago; Darryl D. Williamson, 26, of Chicago; Jimmy C. Hall, 30, of Chicago; Antonio Lewis, 26, of Chicago; and Marquise D. Williamson, 24,...

CHICAGO — Climbing over 1,600 stairs inside the former John Hancock Center is an impressive feat on its own. But for Laura Valentine, it symbolized survival just months after enduring one of the most complex dual organ transplants ever performed at a Chicago hospital. This June marked the one-year...

A rescue dog's miraculous recovery story after being found with more than a dozen stab wounds is going viral -- and it's one that has an even happier ending. When Bonnie, then named Yuki, was brought to Chicago Animal Care & Control, she had suffered 14 stab wounds and was struggling.

CHICAGO — Around 9 p.m. one evening this month, Tristan Kirvin and Sam Tymorek stood on Altgeld Avenue in Logan Square with their heads tilted toward the sky, looking for Connor. “I think I just saw him fly away,” Tymorek said. Moments later, Connor took a sharp turn,...

Joshua Rowell, 36, is charged with two counts of aggravated battery in Cook County Circuit Court, and one count of forcible assault on a federal judicial employee in federal court in Chicago.