Chicago IL

A 43-year-old man was shot and killed late Tuesday on the 3500 block of Maple Lane in Hazel Crest, authorities said. He was pronounced dead at about 10:45 p.m. The Cook County medical examiner identified him as Stephon L. Smith and listed the cause of death as multiple gunshot wounds. Hazel Crest police did not...

CHICAGO - A 13-year-old has been charged with aggravated battery of a 14-year-old, according to Chicago Police. On Feb. 5, a 13-year-old male suspect was arrested at 5 p.m. in the 7200 block of S. Merrill Avenue. He was identified as the suspect who shot and injured a 14-year-old male in the 1900 block of E. 72nd...

CHICAGO — Amtrak has announced several train cancellations in the Midwest and Pacific Northwest today (Fed, along with a second day of large-scale cancellations in the Northwest. Canceled today are Chicago-St. Louis Lincoln Service trains 300, 302, 305, and 307; Chicago-Pontiac, Mich., Wolverines Nos. 351, 352, 353,...

New film directed and produced by Paul Carr, a local filmmaker and writer who once worked as a Green Mill bartender. One of Chicago’s oldest bars, this 1907 original served as notorious gangster Al Capone’s favorite Prohibition-era hangout. These days, Green Mill remains one of the top jazz clubs in the country.

Weeks after a mural of a slain Ukrainian refugee appeared in a West Side neighborhood, a local Ukrainian group is fighting to prevent a second mural from going up. Members of the Illinois chapter of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America (UCCA) received word from Ald. Gilbert Villegas (36th) that a constituent...

A woman who was set on fire on a CTA Blue Line train back in November is now out of the hospital.

The headline on this story was going to be “Rush University Medical Center continues to do great work.”. But I figured that, or a similar headline, might be just a little too vanilla, and probably passed over by many readers who might be quickly skimming the headlines. So, if...

More than two-thirds of entries in Chicago’s annual snowplow-naming contest this year called for abolishing ICE, with residents flooding the city with anti-immigration-enforcement submissions alongside more standard fare. Of the 13,318 entries submitted between December 17 and the contest’s close, 9,231 were simply...

Tucked away in Chicago’s retail landscape sits a bargain hunter’s paradise that has savvy shoppers setting their GPS coordinates and crossing county lines with empty trunks and high hopes. Black Friday Deals & Discount Store isn’t just another flash-in-the-pan clearance outlet – it’s a year-round monument to the...

On top of her responsibilities as a public school lunchroom porter — lugging heavy boxes of fruit, inventory checks, cleaning floors — Amy Mendez also finds herself consoling hungry little kids. “Sometimes they don’t want the food, so they cry,” said Mendez, known as “Ms. Amy” in the...