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In a surprise move at a Monday case management conference, Robert Crimo III's attorneys from the Lake County public defender’s office told J...

An off-duty Chicago police officer, 34-year-old Timothy Siwula, died early Saturday following a two-vehicle crash in Tinley Park, according...

Carpentersville police are working with law enforcement in Vernon Hills to locate a 17-year-old Carpentersville woman believed to have last...

Wauconda teacher Robert Gillen, 53, was driving early Sunday morning when his car was struck head-on by a motorist who was in the wrong lane...

A man was found dead Monday morning after a Rogers Park apartment fire, according to Chicago police.

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Prosecutors are expected to rest their case Monday in the corruption trial of former Ald. Edward Burke, potentially setting the stage for th...

Controversial case in Quincy increases demand by advocates to require training in sexual assault cases.

Even though parts of the Gold Coast and East Side wound up with a nearly identical percentile ranking, they face radically different threats...

Firefighters from Gary, Munster and Merrillville Fire Departments extinguished a fire that started Saturday night at Ralph Waldo Emerson Hig...

After a fire broke out at the vacant Emerson High School Saturday evening, the Gary Fire Department shared images showing large flames and s...

At the United Nations’ COP28 climate summit in Dubai, surveillance cameras seem to be everywhere you turn. And that has some worried.

A 32-year-old man was shot and killed Saturday night in the South Loop neighborhood, according to Chicago police.

Esperanza Mendez recently spent 14 hours waiting for care in the emergency department at one of the busiest Level One trauma centers in the...

Ald. Andre Vasquez's attempt to straddle the middle of those two constituencies has at times put him at odds with both ends of the spectrum.

An off-duty Chicago police officer was killed in a car crash in Tinley Park early Saturday morning, according to Tinley Park police.

Collins was charged after she was identified as the person who fatally wounded a 23-year-old man, and shot three woman ages 21, 24 and 31, i...

The woman was struck by a red SUV in the 4200 block of West Congress Parkway just after 2 a.m. Saturday. After hitting the woman, the driver...

Shortly after 1:15 a.m., officers responded to a call of a person shot in the 1600 block of North Hamiln Avenue and found three people struc...

Shortly before 9 p.m., officers responded to a call of a person shot in the 6000 block of South Laflin Street and found a victim unresponsi...

The crucial decision to put former Chicago Ald. Daniel Solis on the witness stand will shape the rest of Burke’s landmark racketeering trial...

Working drivers across Chicago have long worried about potential dangers while on the job.

Will County authorities had initially accused the slain child's father of assaulting and killing his daughter until DNA evidence cleared him...

A nearly four-decade long moratorium on the construction of new nuclear plants in Illinois will end next year under a measure signed by Gov....