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A Chicago man was sentenced to nearly three years in prison Wednesday for setting a Chicago Police sport-utility vehicle on fire amid unrest and violence downtown two years ago.
"I'm ready to go. I just don't know how to tell ya how great I feel about it, especially my own city."
The shooting Tuesday evening on a Red Line train at 47th Street on Tuesday evening follows months of gunpoint robberies and other crimes on trains and train platforms.
Women leaders on Chicago took on some hot topics on Wednesday.
The gunfire happened around 5 p.m. – the height of the afternoon rush.
Cutting through bureaucratic red tape can be frustrating – but red tape is not the reason for one west suburban woman's frustration.
"The message is we want our park back."
DuPage County ranked number 52 on U.S. News' list of the 500 healthiest counties in the nation, good for the highest ranking of any Illinois county.
DePaul's Luuk Waasenaar becomes a perfect match for a patient in need of a bone marrow transplant.
Ald. Anthony Beale has been trying for more than a year to raise the threshold for speed camera tickets from 6 mph over the limit back to the original to 10 mph.
Scott replaces her brother, Michael Scott Jr., who resigned earlier this month to take a job with Chicago film studio Cinespace.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot said the measure was "clearly needed" to address a gap in the city's building code as the city moves into the hot summer months.
A man is killed in a rollover crash on the Stevenson Expressway early Wednesday morning.
Police on Wednesday issued an alert about a string of armed robberies that stretched from Chinatown to Fulton Market to the Loop and Streeterville, and north all the way to East Lakeview.
A man is charged after kidnapping and sexually assaulting a woman in an abandoned building in Alsip last month.
