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Chicagoans are ducking for cover as delivery robots turn into heat-seeking missiles for innocent glass structures. On Tuesday, another one of these lunchboxes on wheels seems to have smashed into a bus shelter and rained shattered glass all over the sidewalk. Bizarrely, it’s the second time in a matter of days that...

I was overwhelmed by the huge response I got to my Dempster Dining Dive earlier this week and the fabulous suggestions readers sent in for more delicious Dempster spots. Here are more great suggestions to add to your list:. 🇦🇫 Kabul House (2424 W Dempster St. Evanston): "You must try...

Downtown regulars looking for their hazelnut fix were met with locked doors Thursday, as the Nutella Café on Michigan Avenue abruptly shut down with no advance public notice. By midday, the normally busy Millennium Park plaza storefront was dark and quiet, with no staff visible and no one on hand to explain what was...

A downtown alderman is, in a way, saying “told ya so” after a teen trend spun out of control Wednesday night, until police began enforcing the city’s long-established 10 p.m. curfew. For more than two hours, an estimated 400 people, mostly teenagers, flooded street corners in the...

A 65-year-old man was shot in the neck Wednesday evening in Chicago’s North Lawndale neighborhood, adding another violent incident to a community already carrying a heavy burden. The shooting happened around 5:54 p.m. in the 1300 block of South Kedzie Avenue. The victim was rushed to Mount Sinai Hospital,...

After 80 years in Forest Park, Chicago Suburban Lumber Sales on Franklin Street, next to the CTA Green Line and Metra railyard, is closing up shop, and the property is on the market. The decision to shutter the family-owned business comes as large corporations take over the lumber and building...

The 65-year-old father of former south suburban politician Tiffany Henyard was shot and critically injured in Chicago Wednesday evening. Henyard confirmed in a post to social media that her father, Ronald, was shot. “My father, my hero, was an innocent victim of this random and heartbreaking violence,” Henyard...

A freight train robbery in Chicago's Lawndale neighborhood on Tuesday afternoon brought part of a busy rail corridor to a halt, forcing crews to stop a BNSF freight near West 19th Street and South Marshall Boulevard and tangling commuter traffic in the process. Multiple police units converged on the scene as a news...

The Cook County State's Attorney's Office is now creating its own CTA Task Force. It's just the latest local agency working to address crime on the transit system.

Authorities say they found the body of an 18-year-old high school senior whose truck was found upside down in the Little Calumet River this week. According to officials, the body is believed to be that of Rodrigo Montes, who was last seen driving away from a group gathering over the weekend.