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Depree Mims was getting a blanket as his family settled in for a movie at home with his family, when a bullet came through the front window and hit him in the head.
Plumes of smoke have been rising this week from prairies at Fermilab, the Morton Arboretum and other open spaces which naturalists are trying to keep open throughout the Chicago area.
The Griffith Indiana Police Department has released photos of a possible suspect believed to responsible for abducting 76-year-old Mary C. Austgen from her business on March 28.
Aldermen grilled Chicago Public Schools officials and Chicago Teachers Union members Wednesday, over the plan to close 53 schools at the end of the school year, while the head of the school district answered critics at a Board of Education meeting.
University of Chicago cosmologist Michael Turner predicted an orbiting observatory might find an excess of positrons over electrons, from dark matter particles annihilating each other.
A bank robber who murdered a teller during a botched heist on the South Side nearly six years ago has been sentenced to life in prison by a judge who called his case "a horrific tragedy."
Officials said Wednesday that Chicago has enjoyed a record year of film and TV production in the city.
Single-day tickets for Lollapalooza sold out in less than two hours on Wednesday.
Some men, dressed as women, have been hitting fancy Gold Coast stores - not to shop, but, to shoplift.
William "Billy" Curl had been scheduled to stand trial next week for the murder of Antinette "Toni" Keller, an art student at NIU, in October 2010. He had been charged with first-degree murder, criminal sexual assault and arson in connection with Keller's death.
Two people, including a young girl, were killed in a fire in the South Shore neighborhood Wednesday morning.
Demolition crews are tearing down the former boyhood home of President Reagan in Hyde Park.
The CTA says it plans to upgrade its wireless network so passengers can use their cell phones even in its subways and going through tunnels.
