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CHICAGO — Prosecutors have charged a man with trying to abduct a random 13-year-old boy from a Humboldt Park street last week, just one week after being put on electronic monitoring for allegedly selling drugs about a block away. Officials said Devontay Kenny, 32, asked if he could walk...

JEFFERY MANOR — People used to stop by the bowling alley just to talk to Johnnie Hill. Hill — who went from picking cotton in Alabama to holding offices tied to Chicago’s Democratic machine — opened South Side laundromats, convenience stores, car washes and bowling alleys, doling out jobs and favors to community...

64 year old Darryl Clark was last seen in Chicago, Illinois on February 28, 2025. He disappeared after leaving to take a trip to the Walgreens store on 79th and Racine. On February 28, 2025, Darryl Clark was supposed to go to the Walgreens store on 79th and Racine to get some money from the ATM.

MCHENRY CO., Ill. - One person died as a result of a fiery crash in northwest suburban McHenry County on Monday afternoon. The crash happened in the 8200 block of Mason Hill Road near Woodstock, according to a news release from the Woodstock Fire/Rescue District. Crews respond to crash. What...

CHICAGO — A Chicago landlord has been ordered to pay more than $80,000 for threatening to call immigration agents on a couple who rented an apartment from him in 2020. The couple sued their landlord under the state’s Immigrant Tenant Protection Act, which prohibits landlords from discriminating against or harassing a...

MUNSTER, Ind. - An elderly man with dementia from Chicago’s south suburbs who went missing last month was found dead in Northwest Indiana this week. The Lake County (Indiana) Coroner’s Office was called to the 400 block of Superior Avenue in Munster, Indiana, around 7 p.m. on Monday for a death investigation.

When you have a lack of good judgment, if you're not careful you could end up in jail. There is a phrase that is always running through my brain. That is "make good decisions." There was a time in my life when I never did. Someone gave me that advice and it stuck with me ever since. Unfortunately, a lot of people...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WFFT) — January and February car sales in Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin are helping to provide aid in California. The Rohrman Automotive Group collected $25 from every new car sold the past two months across its 22 dealerships. Now, that $25 has amounted to a $64,675...

CHICAGO — A federal judge has sentenced a man to more than 14 years in prison for firing at least 14 shots during a failed carjacking and then successfully hijacking another car nearby. Anthony Blackburn, 22, was on felony pretrial release for another stolen vehicle case when he committed the crimes.

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