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The good news: the mosquitos collected so far this year are disease-free.
The family of a man shot to death Memorial Day weekend by Chicago Police has filed a suit alleging wrongful death and the use of excessive force, reports WBBM's Bob Roberts.
A man has been charged with fatally shooting Chicago rapper Twista's security guard, a man who was found dead in February after a fire in the South Chicago neighborhood.
Ronald Holliman, 18, and two other men, ages 19 and 26, were in the 4900 block of West West End Avenue about 5 p.m. when a group of males got out of a vehicle from an alley and fired multiple shots.
A man believed to have stabbed a 6-year-old boy to death and critically injured a 7-year-old girl in a knife attack in a public housing building that didn't have security cameras was arrested Wednesday, police said.
First-year medical students at Northwestern paid tribute Wednesday afternoon to some of their most important learning tools: the cadavers in their anatomy labs.
Kenneth Dunn, was ticketed for failure to reduce speed to avoid a crash, unsafe equipment and spilling a load of paper across the highway.
The federal appeals court in Chicago is considering whether terrorism defendants have a right to know why they've been wire tapped by federal agents, reports WBBM's John Cody.
Boys, ages 7 and 8, are okay after being caught playing a potentially deadly game at the Countryside Elementary School in northwest suburban Barrington. WBM's Bob Roberts reports that parents are being warned.
Police in Mundelein say they've not yet been able to question a hospitalized man about the apparent murder of an Island Lake woman.
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit accusing state treasurer and failed Republican candidate for governor Dan Rutherford of sexually harassing a former top aide, and pressuring him to perform campaign work on government time.
U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Illinois) said the coalition of political and business leaders who attended a meeting he organized Wednesday to discuss strategies to quell street violence will make the latest efforts the most effective yet.
One of the last surviving U.S. sailors who helped board and capture the German submarine U-505 during World War II was at the Museum of Science and Industry on Wednesday to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the U-boat's capture.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has accused a company that stores huge piles of petroleum coke on the Calumet River of violating federal regulations to limit emissions of harmful black dust, after tracing clouds of the powdery substance to the company.
