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Guatemalan national guilty of illegal presence A Guatemalan national has pleaded guilty to being illegally present in the United States after a prior removal and failing to update his registration as a convicted sex offender. Prosecutors say Roberto Nicolas-Simon, 24, had been removed from the country following his...

A video circulating online this week showing Chicago police arresting two men, including one who took a swing at a cop on camera, has an interesting and increasingly familiar twist: the guy who took the swing identified himself at the scene as one of the city’s “peacekeepers.”. According...

Mourning and unanswered questions coalesced in Melrose Park as family, friends, and dozens of community members paid tribute to Silverio Villegas González, a 38-year-old man shot and killed by an ICE agent during what was supposed to be a routine traffic stop, WGN TV reported. The religious service for Villegas...

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CHICAGO - Federal authorities are asking for the public’s help to track down seven people accused of violent crimes, including murder and carjacking, now featured on a newly launched "Chicago Most Wanted" list. What we know:. The FBI Chicago announced the list following "Operation Summer Heat," a joint initiative...

Instead of sleeping in a large room on cots like other men's shelters, the residents share a room with one other person.

A woman selling tamales was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Thursday in the Back of the Yards neighborhood on the Southwest Side of Chicago.

A 39-year-old man is accused of sexually abusing or touching at least five women in Rogers Park on Sunday evening, including three Loyola University students, before campus police detained him, according to court records. The first reported incident occurred around 7 p.m. when he allegedly grabbed a 21-year-old...

CHICAGO — A 12-year-old girl is missing and was last seen Wednesday evening on the West Side. Samiya Washington, 12, is missing from the 4800 block of West Wabansia in the city’s Austin neighborhood. Washington, 6’2″ and 250 lbs., has brown eyes and black hair with braids in a ponytail. She was wearing a dark […]

"I just want to show them that you can't silence us," the male victim told WGN.TV.