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Oak Lawn has a delicious reason to hit pause on the usual dinner routine: La Cocina De Mama turns an everyday meal into a full-on family occasion. 🌮. From handmade tortillas and slow-braised birria to sizzling skirt steak and house-made chorizo, this family-owned Mexican restaurant brings big flavor, generous plates, a

An Oak Lawn man whose life sentence for murder and arson was overturned in 2021 following advocacy by the Innocence Project was sentenced Monday to five years in prison after pleading guilty to traveling to meet a 13-year-old after exchanging explicit texts, according to court records. Francisco Nanez, 61, was...

The Chicago Park District is responding after some North Side dog owners raised concerns about the design of a newly renovated dog-friendly area at Hamlin Park.

A 33-year-old Chicago woman who worked at Cook County Jail’s medical facility is facing a felony charge for allegedly smuggling a cellphone into the jail and slipping it into gauze covering a prisoner’s injury. Dominique Smith-Montgomery, an employee at Cermak Health Services, the jail hospital, was arrested July...

AUSTIN — West Side native Walter Weaver moved into the Crestwood Apartments in Austin two years ago. Since then, the 70-year-old has watched his living situation deteriorate. For over a year, Weaver’s bathroom didn’t have working hot water, so he would go to neighbors’ units to take showers or...

DUPAGE COUNTY, Ill. - Two suburban Chicago women are facing felony charges after prosecutors say they led police on a high-speed chase that ended in two crashes, including one involving a police squad car. Oak Brook police chase charges. Vanessa Mejia, 29, of Elmwood Park, and Magaly Valencia, 21, of...

Chicago eatery The Wiener's Circle is accusing Malice of the Clipse of taking a polish hot dog without paying.

Crews recovered the bodies of two missing kayakers, who lived in the Chicago area, from Lake Michigan near Wisconsin's Washington Island on Monday, police said.

A surveillance camera captured footage of a man who allegedly burglarized a condo in a north suburban building that partially collapsed earlier this year.

A group of high-ranking Chicago police officials are pushing to form their own union, setting up a possible fight with Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration. In a letter last month to Militza Pagán, Johnson’s deputy mayor of labor relations, an attorney with the Illinois Police Benevolent & Protective Association aske