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A man was shot and killed while in a parked car on Monday in South Austin, police said.

Chicago police are investigating after a woman was stabbed in the Loop Tuesday afternoon.

Chicago police have been warning construction crews and contractors for months about teams of armed robbers who’ve been targeting work vans and stealing expensive tools at gunpoint. Now, charges have been filed in one such case, and the accused man is on probation for a gun case. On the...

A South Side man who shot a good Samaritan during a confrontation with a parking enforcement worker near Oakwood Beach two summers ago was sentenced Tuesday to seven years in prison. William Hunter, 56, pleaded guilty to aggravated battery by discharging a firearm in exchange for the sentence from Judge...

A man has been charged with beating a senior citizen with a hammer last month in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago.

A couple has decided to close their Chicago storefront after the shop's first location was burglarized twice in 10 days and the latest location was also burglarized, causing tens of thousands of dollars in stolen merchandise and damage. "Three strikes, you're out, I guess," said Kevin Woods. "I'm trying to...

Members of a Chicago City Council committee today received a report that recommended changes to the city’s speed-camera enforcement program. The recommendations include changes designed to improve transparency and equity.

A 22-year-old South Side man with a history of gun convictions is now charged with murdering his girlfriend in front of multiple witnesses while on felony pretrial release. Xavier Tousant is the 14th person accused of killing or trying to kill someone in Chicago this year while awaiting trial for another felony.

The order affirms the City’s commitment to safeguarding every Chicagoan’s constitutional right to free speech and peaceful assembly. Mayor Brandon Johnson signed the ‘Right to Protest’ executive order, which seeks to protect the free speech rights of every Chicagoan. The order, which builds upon Mayor Johnson’s...

As two federal agents tried to revive a Mexican immigrant who was dying from gunshot wounds, one of them sought to explain the shooting. “He tried to run us over,” the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer said in body camera footage captured by a Franklin Park cop arriving at the northwest suburban...