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Free doula services are now available to residents on Chicago’s South Side, offering added support for Black mothers, who continue to face higher risks during pregnancy and childbirth. Keyonna Thompkins, Program Manager for Maternal Health at the Southside Healthy Community Organization, joins us to explain how the...

The car crashed after hopping onto I-88, where it rolled over and caught fire.

Retired Chicago Police Officer Dr. Jacquelyn Frausto has been tapped to take the reins of the Freeport Police Department as the new Chief of Police.

In his first TV interview in Chicago since being named leader of the New York Archdiocese, Bishop Ronald Hicks join ABC7 from the Blanchette Catholic Center in Crest Hill.

CHICAGO - FBI Chicago is turning up the heat in the search for one of its most wanted fugitives. FOX 32’s Anita Blanton has the exclusive on the latest developments in the hunt for 32-year-old Antonio Stigler. What we know:. Stigler is wanted by the FBI for allegedly committing...

A federal grand jury in Chicago has indicted a man on terrorism and arson charges for allegedly lighting a passenger on fire on a Chicago Transit Authority train and setting fire to Chicago City Hall three days earlier. The indictment against LAWRENCE REED, 50, of Chicago, was returned on Wednesday...

Chicago police this past weekend issued a community alert about a rash of burglaries targeting businesses around the city from Rogers Park to Beverly.

Update: Dec. 22 at 2:31 p.m. The Root previously reported that cellphone footage captured a Chicago mother and her young son being followed home and ambushed by a group of Orville T. Bright School students in November. Now, just over a month after the incident went viral, angered the community and had the internet...

Chicago police are warning of a string of forcible burglaries in which two to four suspects arrive in a stolen vehicle, use hammers or other blunt objects to break in, steal items including safes, deposit boxes, poker machines and suspected drugs, then flee. The suspects are described as two to...

CHICAGO - A person was hospitalized after a crash on Interstate 94 in Chicago early Sunday morning. What we know: — Police responded to the scene on southbound I-94 south of Cermak Road around 6:38 a.m., according to the Illinois State Police. Investigators learned there was a multi-vehicle crash...