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Prosecutors have charged a man with defacing a mural honoring three fallen Chicago police officers in West Lawn earlier this year. It’s the 11th time Chicago cops have arrested 29-year-old Armando Ramirez since he turned 18, according to CPD records. Two of those arrests resulted in prison sentences for gun possession.

A man was arrested and charged this week with exposing himself to a woman in the parking lot of a school in Oak Lawn, Illinois.

A letter carrier’s murder in West Pullman two years ago was a paid hit arranged by a man who threatened to kill a 15-year-old if the boy didn’t carry it out, prosecutors said Wednesday. Lyndell Deyoung, 35, is charged with murder in the July 19, 2024, killing of...

Chicago police early Thursday were investigating a crash-and-grab burglary at a gas station in the North Lawndale neighborhood.

A new transitional shelter is opening next month to serve the homeless population on Chicago's Far North Side. "I've never seen anything like this before done municipally to create the most dignified trauma informed space like the Haven," said Executive Director Andrew Winter of Cornerstone Community Outreach. The Have

The Cicero Police Department named 30-year-old Gerald Downey as the person who was killed in a deadly crash from Tuesday night, Aug. 25.

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Two people were injured in a crash involving two semi-trucks in North Chicago Thursday morning, fire officials said.

So-called ‘teen takeovers’ have generated countless headlines in recent years in Chicago and the suburbs, but how does Mayor Brandon Johnson think he’s done in addressing the issue?. The ‘takeovers,’ largely organized on social media and focused on specific neighborhoods, have drawn some criticism of the mayor’s...