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Standing on West Pershing Road at Damen Avenue in Chicago, Illinois, sits an 11-story brick tower with a clock face on each of its four walls. It was finished in 1917 as the water tower for the Central Manufacturing District, the private industrial district that ran these warehouses. Two tanks...

A 35-year-old cleaning worker died Wednesday, four days after gunfire tore through the car carrying him and three co-workers home from a night shift in Little Village, striking him in the head as they drove through the 2400 block of South Central Park Avenue around 2:40 a.m. Armando Viveros Cortes was riding in the bac

CHICAGO — Authorities say one person is dead and another is recovering in the hospital on Saturday morning following a crash along the Stevenson Expressway. According to Illinois State Police, the crash occurred along the southbound lanes of I-55 near Wentworth, at around 4:30 a.m. Saturday. While details surrounding w

A Chicago Public Schools counseling assistant who also founded a state-funded Englewood violence-prevention nonprofit is being held without bail after prosecutors say he groomed and sexually assaulted two girls over seven years. Charles McKenzie, 37, was taken into custody on August 5 and now faces charges of criminal

Chicago police are looking for a group of people who took a man's cane and then beat him with it in broad daylight on the city's South Side.

The mayor of suburban Forest Park said an incident recorded inside his village's police department "should not have happened." Video from late July shows a man, identified by the mayor as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, entering a restricted area of the police station. The mayor confirmed the police chief

CHICAGO - A man accused of slapping a woman aboard a CTA bus on Goose Island and fleeing the scene is being sought by police. The incident happened about 10:12 p.m. July 29 in the 1500 block of North Clybourn Avenue. Chicago police said a woman riding a CTA bus...

The Cook County Medical Examiner's Office said 33 of the 56 bodies taken from a shuttered Far South Side funeral home have been identified. They released the names of those whose families have been notified.

The Cook County Sheriff's Office is warning the public of an ongoing phone scam.

LUDLOW, Ill. (WCIA) — A woman from Chicago was pronounced dead Friday morning following a crash on I-57 overnight. The crash happened at 12:48 a.m. near Ludlow. Officials from the Illinois State Police said it involved two vehicles — a semi-truck and a passenger car — and multiple victims were taken to the hospital wit