Fire Damages 3 Buildings In Grand Crossing; 6 People Displaced
Firefighters battled a fire near 68th Street and Dante Avenue.
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Firefighters battled a fire near 68th Street and Dante Avenue.
A man is dead after being struck by a vehicle while crossing the highway lanes of Lake Shore Drive Thursday night.
Brighton Park is in the dark, with street lights completely out on than a dozen blocks.
At least two poles besides the one that came toppling over have also been taken down outside the Thompson Center after one fell, as the city has finally decided to inspect them.
A 13-year-old boy is dead after being struck by a vehicle in the South Chicago neighborhood Thursday evening.
A body was found Thursday evening in an abandoned school in Gary.
A 17-year-old boy is dead after being shot in a backyard in Lawndale on Thursday evening.
"I saw the light pole fall. And the lights just went scattering all over the place."
The results of an audit of the Illinois child abuse hotline were released Thursday, and the reviews were not good. But even larger questions are emerging over whether the agency being audited was grading itself.
Police on Thursday were warning the public about a string of robberies that happened within one evening Sunday from River North to Lincoln Park.
More details emerged Thursday about the traumatic moments inside an Old Irving Park music school, where a police officer and a teenage boy were wounded in a gun battle.
At least one officer is recovering at Stroger, the others were taken to other hospitals, but authorities said they're going to be okay.
One of the state's longest-serving inmates was granted parole on Thursday.
About 75,233 pounds of packaged salad products with meat or poultry are being recalled, because the lettuce ingredient might be contaminated with E. coli.
A cold front has moved through the Chicago area, and strong westerly winds behind it keep pulling in drier air.
