Chicago Public Defender Fights for Those With Odds Stacked Against Them
Chastidy Burns, Cook County public defender learned that helping people in the legal system may not be the same path traveled for everyone.
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Chastidy Burns, Cook County public defender learned that helping people in the legal system may not be the same path traveled for everyone.
Chicago psychotherapist Pat Windsor got a surprise during her field practice internship that has taught her a valuable lesson for over 24 years.
Time is running out for a Chicago family who desperate need your help. Six children are pleading for anyone who can donate a living kidney to their dad, to save his life.
A woman died after being shot Saturday night outside her Humboldt Park neighborhood home on the West Side.
Be wary, Chicago. Any snow that falls Sunday is not expected to accumulate much, but the National Weather Service said to prepare for a chilly Monday.
It was a year ago tomorrow when a tornado devastated the town of Washington, Illinois and a woman who'd never heard of the town before the tornado has devoted this year to helping reunite people with their lost possessions.
Police say slick roads caused a 12-vehicle accident on Route 83 near I-55 in Willowbrook on Sunday.
The Morton Grove family of an SIU student who died last February says they will file a complaint with the federal government over the police handling of the case.
A wrong-way driver on the Kennedy Expressway caused a head-on crash that hurt four people early Sunday.
Four people were killed and at least 15 others have been wounded in shootings across the city since Saturday afternoon, police said.
For more than 17 years Francis Cardinal George has guided the religious community. Today, marks the last services he'll do so with that title.
An admitted gang member who allegedly cut off an Illinois State Police squad car on the Kennedy Expressway sped away after being pulled over, then crashed into a taxicab in River North and fought a state trooper over his arrest, prosecutors said on Saturday, the Chicago Sun-Times is reporting.
Three men were shot, one fatally, at a party early Sunday on the Near West Side, police said.
A Chicago Police officer was hurt and opened fire during a traffic stop Saturday night in the Roseland neighborhood on the Far South Side.
A 17-year-old girl was shot Saturday night in the South Shore neighborhood.
