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CHICAGO - A leader of Chicago's Four Corner Hustlers gang was sentenced to life in federal prison for his role in a violent criminal enterprise that operated for decades on the West Side. Labar Spann, 47, was convicted last December after a five-week trial on charges including racketeering conspiracy, two...

Former Chicago Mayor Richard Daley is recovering from a third stroke, according to a report from the Chicago Sun-Times.

CHICAGO — A federal jury has convicted a Pennsylvania woman of embezzling more than $1 million from a Chicago-area company’s subsidiary. Following a four-day trial in U.S. District Court in Chicago, which concluded on April 9, Tina Feuerstein, a 53-year-old Hanover, Pennsylvania, resident, was convicted of eight counts of wire fraud. According to prosecutors, for […]

Before any firefighter got to a housefire, a man ran into the burning home to make sure a family of five people got out safely.

The video shows multiple people appearing to throw things into the car as it bursts into flames on Chicago's South Side.

A human skull found inside an Amazon box on Chicago’s Near West Side more than a year ago has now been identified by DNA as belonging to a missing man, giving his family a measure of closure after they turned to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Missing Persons Day for help. The identification settles who he was but leaves major questions on the table...

CHICAGO - A man is in custody after allegedly firing shots at a parked CTA bus Monday on Chicago’s Southwest Side, causing damage but no injuries. The shooting happened around 5:40 p.m. in the 4600 block of West 59th Street in the city's West Elsdon neighborhood. Police said a...

Chicago officers and federal agents say a coordinated series of South Side raids turned up nine guns, suspected narcotics, piles of stolen merchandise, and more than $280,000 in cash during a one-day sweep earlier this month. The operation unfolded on April 12 and was outlined publicly on April 20, according to authorities.

The Chicago Transit Authority is firing about 160 private security guards to replace them with police officers to maintain security on its transit system.

Chicago firefighters were battling a two-alarm fire in the city’s Roseland neighborhood as an abandoned church went up in flames. Firefighters were called Monday night to the church in the 10600 block of South Perry, and dozens of crews were eventually called to the scene to contain the blaze.