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A Cook County judge approved a plea deal that allowed a man accused of robbing another driver during a road-rage confrontation to escape prison time, although prosecutors claimed the robbery occurred while he was wearing an ankle monitor for a gun case. Robert Bray, 35, of Evergreen Park, was charged...

A 17-year-old was seriously hurt in an alley shooting in Chicago's Southwest Side, police said.

Three men were injured in a shooting Sunday evening just outside of St. Sabina Church on the city's South Side, Chicago police said.

Chicago Fire Department firefighters went viral after carefully rescuing a civilian's extensive sneaker collection from a burning building.

The boyfriend of a woman who was fatally shot while the two were in bed together earlier this year has been sentenced to 12 years in prison, according to court records. The shooting also resulted in the death of the woman’s unborn child. Robert Pasco III, 43, pleaded guilty...

A recent viral video shows a beaver chomping down a tree in a northwest suburb of Chicago. Schaumburg's public works department got some unexpected help from the little volunteer who was seen munching away at a tree in the area. A video of the beaver was taken by Jorge Duarte,...

MARION, Iowa (KCRG) - The Marion Police Department has arrested a Chicago man wanted for murder in Illinois. In a post on Facebook, the department said MPD responded to a disturbance call, and the subject involved gave a fake name. Court documents said the incident happened at 1190-1 South 12th...

A hotel guest in Illinois spent Christmas Eve attempting to butcher a man he was celebrating with earlier in the night, stabbing him multiple times while he was trying to sleep on an inflatable bed after the festivities, prosecutors say. Uberclein Vazquez Villareal, 40, has been charged with armed violence and...

Mass Transit detectives said the suspect approached a passenger inside a train car with a bottle in hand and demanded their cell phone.

Two men were wounded when a quiet South Side sidewalk turned into a shooting scene Saturday afternoon, according to Chicago police. The attack happened around 2:57 p.m., when someone opened fire as the pair stood on a sidewalk in the 8900 block of South Loomis, authorities said. An 18-year-old man...