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Illinois State Police said tollway surveillance cameras and interviews of out-of-state witnesses helped investigators and prosecutors bring reckless homicide charges against a 26-year-old Ohio truck driver this week.
He���s the second to die from cold exposure during the string of below-freezing days that has hit Chicago recently.
A man died in the custody of the Cook County sheriff's office Wednesday afternoon after he was involved in a DUI crash.
Charles Manson, a hippie cult leader, died of natural causes Sunday at age 83 after nearly half a century behind bars.
A man was found dead on the Brown Line tracks early Tuesday on the North Side, police said.
A 47-year-old inmate died Sunday night after collapsing at the Cook County Jail.
Lincoln Park Zoo sadly reported Tuesday the death of Sabrena, a geriatric female giraffe.
Drago the police dog's career ended tragically, after three years, in a hot vehicle in a parking lot in Oak Forest.
Richard Garrity Jr. was at Tuesday's Cubs game when he fell over a railing for unknown reasons around 11 p.m. as he was exiting the stadium.
The fall that apparently caused his injuries occurred late Tuesday evening, Chicago police said.
The mother of 16-month-old Semaj Crosby speaks after faced with the heartbreak of her child's death.
The children of a suburban Chicago couple married 69 years say the husband and wife died 40 minutes apart at a hospital while holding hands.
A college student has died after being struck during a hammer-throw event at a track meet in suburban Chicago.
A Chicago area camp that helps children deal with the death of a loved one is now taking applications for its next session in October.
In November, Congressman Danny Davis' grandson was shot and killed, and now the boy's father has died.
A woman whose family said she developed a love for animals at a young age lost her life trying to save a dog from a river, police said Monday.
The baby's mother, Parasha Beard, was killed in Sept. 2016. She was 8 months pregnant and doctors would save and deliver the baby.
The world's first gorilla born in a zoo, a female named Colo who became the oldest known living gorilla in the U.S., has died at age 60.
Cold weather has been at least partially to blame for the deaths of at least four people this season in Cook County, according to autopsy results.
A 28-year-old woman died Saturday after she was involved in a crash in south suburban Richton Park.
Kyle Leeney, 21, was celebrating the World Series victory when he climbed a light pole outside a bar in Iowa City, not far from the University of Iowa campus.
A Cook County commissioner for the 6th District since 2002, Murphy began her political career as the elected clerk of Crestwood in 1965, at a time when "there weren't many women in any political office," her son said.
About 2:15 p.m., Massa Qarajeh ran across 104th Avenue near Calumet Sag Road and was hit by the Jeep, which was southbound on 104th, according to the Cook County sheriff's and medical examiner's offices.
Katherine Babich, of Park Ridge, fell ill Monday morning, and was taken to Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, where she was pronounced dead early Monday afternoon, according to Maine Township High School Distrct 207 and the Cook County Medical Examiner's office.
Davies, 82, had been ill for several weeks before the sale of the long-closed building that straddles Congress Parkway in the West Loop, according to Vicky Flores, who ran the Chicago office of Davies' International Property Developers.
