Armed robbers targeted several fast food restaurants and liquor stores on the North Side Thursday night and shots were exchanged in one of the incidents, Chicago police said .
Potent and deadly street drugs, most laced with fentanyl, continue to kill Americans at staggering rates. Should prosecutors be able to charge dealers with murder for those deaths?
The driver whose car caught on fire was "driving aggressively and attempting to pass multiple cars" when she lost control and crashed into another car and a tree, police said. She was pulled away from her vehicle as it was engulfed in…
According to Chicago police, a woman fired her gun at a 13-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy when they tried to take her SUV Tuesday on the city's South Side.
Fentanyl is now listed as the nation's greatest and most urgent drug threat as Mexican cartels remain at the heart of drug trafficking threatening Chicago and other American communities, according to a new DEA report.
A Chicago WWII veteran who was forced into a Japanese internment camp was given France's Legion of Honor for his military work to liberate France from German occupation.
Attorneys said a elementary school nurse in the north suburbs gave a student a non-prescription drug that included the opioid fentanyl rather than the prescription the student was a supposed to receive.
A virtual meeting will be held via Zoom Thursday to discuss a plan to host a two-day event in Grant Park to celebrate Mexican Independence Day. The meeting is open to the public.
A lower part of DuSable Lake Shore Drive in downtown is now closed for repairs. Work will also begin soon with lane closures on DLSD on the Far North Side.
Nearly a year and a half after a 31-year-old Wheaton woman was killed in a hit-and-run crash in the west suburbs, a Batavia woman has been cited, Wheaton officials said in a news release Thursday.
Harvey Weinstein will remain locked up in New York as a court works out whether he should stay in a city jail while he awaits a retrial in a rape case, or be sent back to California to continue serving a prison sentence.
Angela Bridges was aboard the Carnival Venezia cruise ship with her family, including son Aiden, en route to New York City from the Caribbean when he fell seriously ill.