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The mother of a child wounded in a mass shooting last week in Chicago is thanking God and doctors for her son's recovery, and is calling for an end to the gun violence that's plaguing the city.
A playwright and ensemble member of Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company is among the winners of the 2013 MacArthur Fellowships – better known as the "genius grants."
The victims are distracted, sucker punched, and then robbed of smart phones, purses or wallets.
DuPage County is seeing a spike in heroin deaths, and the man who sees most of those victims is trying to educate people of the drug's evils.
Kim Barbouin, author of the Skinny Bitch series, shares her favorite vegan sweets recipes so you can bake up a storm.
Conceal carry in Illinois will mean more people with guns who can protect themselves -- but self defense laws have not yet changed.
A Cook County jury on Tuesday awarded $1 million to a man who spent a year in jail before a jury found him not guilty of assaulting a police officer on the South Side.
He's a recovering heroin addict who tried to turn his life around, was a member of a heroin support group and spoke out against heroin on CBS' 48 hours. But he's in big trouble with the law for allegedly trying to sell it to a police officer.
Have you noticed something different in the air this fall? An abundance of black and white critters creating an eye watering stench?
A man filed an excessive force lawsuit Tuesday against the city, after his brother was shot and killed by an off-duty Chicago police officer during a confrontation at a Near West Side Chicago Housing Authority building earlier this month.
Superintendent McCarthy has claimed that the assault on the park never would have happened if Illinois had tougher gun laws. If suspect Bryon Champ was in jail, he wouldn't have been involved in the shooting which triggered the revenge attack.
A jury on Tuesday found a southwest suburban man guilty of murder for the beating death of a 9-month-old boy he was babysitting in October 2008, the Herald-News is reporting.
Next month begins a new chapter in health care that many Americans are still trying to figure out.
After talking to six persons of interest and conducting many interviews, DuPage County State's Attorney Robert Berlin has decided there is insufficient evidence to move forward with charges, according to a spokesman.
Some Chicago Aldermen have different ideas about the way police should address the continuing gun violence in the City reports WBBM Political Editor Craig Dellimore.
