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Police and paramedics responded to a call of an unresponsive baby at 10 a.m. Thursday in the 800 block of East Old Willow Road. The child was pronounced dead at the scene, Police Chief Jamie Dunne said at the scene.
Area travel agents say rocket attacks between Israeli troops and Palestinian militants are having an impact on people's choices of whether to visit Israel in the near future.
A lawyer for a former Illinois state representative charged with child pornography has told a federal judge his client is talking with prosecutors about a possible plea agreement.
About one-half of Americans do not have enough money saved for basic unplanned expenses, such as a car repair or trip to the emergency room for a minor mishap.
Officials at ComEd said, believe it or not, power outages from last week's severe storms could have been worse, if not for the new "smart grid" upgrades the utility has made in the past few years.
Enjoy the warm, sunny weather while you can. The polar vortex probably will rear its ugly head again in Chicago next week, though luckily we won't need to break out the snow shovels and parkas.
Police confirmed the hospital was placed on lockdown as a precautionary measure, after someone called in a threat to shoot everyone in the hospital around 10:25 a.m.
The co-chairman of a legislative panel investigating Gov. Pat Quinn's scandal-plagued anti-violence program said Thursday members of the commission will vote next week whether to comply with a request from federal prosecutors to hold off their probe for 90 days.
Jawaun Westbrook, of the 400 block of East Ohio Street, was charged Thursday with two felony counts of aggravated battery, police said. He was due to appear for a bond hearing Thursday afternoon.
Staff Sgt. Travis Mills lost both arms and both legs in an explosion in Afghanistan in 2012. A new film "Travis: A Soldier's Story" documents the tremendous physical and emotional challenges he faces every day.
Two years after a federal judge ordered her son sent back to Ireland to live with his father, an Orland Park woman is still fighting to get sole custody of the 7-year-old boy and bring him back to Illinois.
The small equipment barge, which was being used as part of the project to expand the Chicago Riverwalk, sunk near the LaSalle Street bridge early Thursday.
The Lake County Coroner's office has determined 54-year-old Decarol Deloney-Cain had suffered multiple stab wounds and blunt force trauma to the head.
The male, whose age was not immediately known, fired shots at police officers about 2:50 a.m. near West 64th Street and South Campbell Avenue, police said. Police returned fire, but no one was injured in the shooting.
Mohammed Alyamani fell from the top floor of a three-flat apartment building in the 3700 block of North Kostner Avenue around 1:30 p.m. Tuesday. He died Wednesday evening at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge.
