1 Dead, 23 Wounded In New Year's Weekend Shootings Across Chicago
At least 16 other people were wounded in shootings across Chicago between 8:30 p.m. Friday and 6:30 a.m. Monday.
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At least 16 other people were wounded in shootings across Chicago between 8:30 p.m. Friday and 6:30 a.m. Monday.
Overall, Chicago saw 650 murders in 2017, down from 771 the previous year, according to Chicago Police.
Pamela Bosley said Chicagoans are desensitized to gun violence.
Cook County Commissioner Richard Boykin said leaders in Chicago and Cook County have failed to protect many communities from violent crime.
During a press conference in South Korea, the president was asked if he would consider "extreme vetting" for gun purchases.
At least eight of the guns he bought were later recovered in the possession of other people, including minors and felons, in Indiana, Illinois and Ohio.
For the eighth-straight month this year, Chicago saw a reduction in gun violence in October, the police department announced Wednesday.
Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood is trying to go beyond treating wounds to address the gun violence plaguing the area.
The group of students from 20 schools hit hard by violence heard from Dr. Greg Primus, a former Bears wide receiver who played three years in Chicago and went on to become a surgeon.
Kennedy says the state must be tough on railroad companies that fail to protect shipments of guns that make their way through Illinois.
Bank officials said Thursday that poverty, racial and economic inequities, and a lack of opportunity are factors behind Chicago gun violence
Brent Turpin, a special education teacher in Englewood, was arrested Tuesday and faces one count of conspiracy to dispose of a firearm and ammunition to a known felon.
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Chicago Police Department officials say the city's investment in crime-fighting technology is helping officers.
A man was caught with a loaded handgun in his carry-on bag Thursday morning at Midway International Airport.
A group of Chicago youths has launched an effort to camp out overnight this summer in neighborhoods plagued by shootings.
The shooting death of a young woman on Ohio Street this past weekend has community activists and a candidate for Governor calling for new thinking in the effort to stop gun violence.
Family members say Jervon Morris, who had several disabilities, was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Police have released a sketch of the suspect who sexually assaulted and robbed a woman at gunpoint last month in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood on the South Side.
The rain hasn't stopped the shootings in Chicago this weekend, but it did postpone a prayer line to honor gunshot victims.
Two were people shot on Tuesday evening in the Belmont Central neighborhood, bringing Chicago's gun violence toll to 1,000 victims this year.
Police say two students accused of planning to carry out a shooting at their suburban Chicago middle school didn't have any weapons nor apparently any access to guns.
A group of men held up a tow truck driver at gunpoint on the West Side early Friday, then took off in the car that was being towed.
Chicago Aldermen approved a further crackdown on party buses, but further revisions may require state law changes.
Police said Judge Raymond Myles and the woman were getting ready to go to the gym shortly before 5 am, when they were shot outside his home.
A man died, and two women were injured after a house fire in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood on Friday morning.
Two 20-year-olds have been arrested and charged with hazing and disorderly conduct in relation to the incident.
Residents in Oswego, Illinois, are asked to shelter in place amid an ongoing police investigation on Friday morning.
How could a little boy live through unthinkable suffering all alone with nothing? A Holocaust survivor is still telling his story eight years after his death, thanks to his hologram at the Illinois Holocaust Museum.
An investigation is underway into NIPSCO's response to the August storms that left thousands without power for weeks in Northwest Indiana
A special board meeting to replace the village manager in south suburban Hazel Crest came to an end before it could even begin on Thursday.
Big names continue to leave Mayor Brandon Johnson's administration, with his chief legal counsel announcing her retirement this week. Analysts said the wave of departures at City Hall is problematic.
The City Council Finance Committee backed a deal allowing Chicago's parking meters to be sold from one private company to another, as part of an agreement that would see the city start to net a share of future profits.
Gov. JB Pritzker is setting up a new group within state government to explore more regulations for artificial intelligence as calls grow across the country for new restrictions.
The Illinois Supreme Court on Thursday was set to hear legal arguments in a years-long case over whether Chicago police officers accused of serious misconduct can have their disciplinary hearings held behind closed doors.
Scammers are now impersonating the patient portal MyChart, using realistic-looking emails, texts, and websites to try to steal personal information and, in some cases, get malware on your computer.
Fuel prices continue to climb across the country, and that has U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) pointing the finger at President Trump.
Nicor customers will get a break on their bills this fall after Illinois Attorney General Kwame Roul reached an agreement with the utility to cut $140 million from its requested rate hike.
Drivers in Chicago and beyond were paying the highest gas prices ever recorded for the Labor Day holiday as millions of Americans were making their way home on Monday.
Around 115 million domestic and international tourists visited Illinois last year, pushing visitor spending past $50 billion for the first time and generating more than $88 billion in total economic impact.
The Chicago Department of Public Health on Wednesday launched its first "street psychiatry" teams, in an effort to provide mental health services to some of the city's most vulnerable people.
A new Illinois law lets terminally ill patients request a lethal prescription to end their lives, making the state the 13th in the U.S. — and the first in the Midwest — to permit it.
Nearly half of Americans with medical debt owe at least $2,000, forcing them to make tough choices, new research shows.
A judge on Tuesday was expected to place two shuttered Chicago-area safety-net hospitals into receivership.
Cardinal Blase Cupich and a group of Catholic nuns have joined a federal lawsuit challenging Illinois' Medical Aid in Dying law, which is set to take effect in just over a week.
McDonald's said Wednesday it will spend $8.5 billion over the next decade to modernize its restaurants globally.
The future of Rate Field was back in the spotlight on Wednesday.
Plans for a new Chicago White Sox stadium in the South Loop have residents near the existing ballpark in Bridgeport concerned, not just because the team might be leaving, but also what might be coming nearby.
A new report from the University of Illinois Chicago said federal immigration enforcement led to $1.26 billion in unspent money at retail establishments and restaurants in Cook County.
Around 115 million domestic and international tourists visited Illinois last year, pushing visitor spending past $50 billion for the first time and generating more than $88 billion in total economic impact.
Taylor Swift announced her new single "Patient Zero" earlier this week, saying she has been "impatiently waiting" to announce that it will be out on Friday.
A Tennessee judge granted Dolly Parton's estate a temporary restraining order Wednesday against the late singer's nephew Bryan Seaver and his private security company.
An autopsy by the Greenville County Coroner's Office determined Hayden Panettiere's death was due to an accidental overdose of several drugs, including fentanyl.
Nike-owned Converse acknowledged that an ad for its Chuck Taylor sneaker is "deeply upsetting."
Presley Gerber, the son of Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber, has died at 27, a family spokesperson has confirmed.
Residents in Oswego, Illinois, are asked to shelter in place amid an ongoing police investigation on Friday morning.
Meteorologist Mary Kay Kleist has the extended forecast.
Residents in Oswego, Illinois, are asked to shelter in place amid an ongoing police investigation on Friday morning.
A firefighter was among four injured when a fire ripped through an apartment building on Thursday in west suburban Woodridge.
Chief meteorologist Albert Ramon has the latest First Alert Weather forecast.
Three people were injured in a house fire in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood on Friday morning.
Residents in Oswego, Illinois, are asked to shelter in place amid an ongoing police investigation on Friday morning.
A firefighter was among four injured when a fire ripped through an apartment building on Thursday in west suburban Woodridge.
Two 20-year-olds have been arrested and charged with hazing and disorderly conduct in relation to the incident.
How could a little boy live through unthinkable suffering all alone with nothing? A Holocaust survivor is still telling his story eight years after his death, thanks to his hologram at the Illinois Holocaust Museum.
Surging gas and diesel prices are putting the pinch on farmers with harvest season underway, and could drive grocery prices even further up.
Another business owned by a couple under investigation for mishandling bodies at funeral homes and crematories on the South Side and in the south suburbs was raided by law enforcement Thursday.
Crown Point native Chris Payne was arrested for the 2018 sexual assault of a woman, which he has adamantly claimed from the beginning that he had nothing to do with.
A Chicago nonprofit is suing its former president, accusing him of illegally diverting millions of dollars in charitable funds and jeopardizing the charity's future in fighting homelessness.
They're not regular donuts, they're quantum donuts. That's the pitch from a business hoping to get more dough as a massive new quantum computing campus continues construction in South Chicago.
Pete Crow-Armstrong joined the 40-40 club by stealing his 40th base to go along with his major league-leading 45 home runs, and the Chicago Cubs clinched their second straight postseason berth with a 2-1 victory over the Miami Marlins.
The Chicago White Sox became the first team to follow consecutive 100-loss seasons by reaching the playoffs on Thursday, throttling the Kansas City Royals 9-1 to ensure no worse than one of the three AL wild-card spots for the postseason.
History was made during the regular-season finale at Wrigley Field Thursday, as Pete Crow-Armstrong became the first player in Cubs history to join the 40-40 Club.
The Cubs and White Sox will both play in the postseason for the first time since 2020, after clinching playoff spots within a matter of minutes of each other on Thursday afternoon.
Kyle Stowers homered and the Miami Marlins denied the Chicago Cubs a chance to clinch a playoff berth for the second straight night with a 3-2 victory Wednesday.
A Chicago violence interrupter is remembered for the difference he tried to make in his South Shore neighborhood. Courtney Harris worked to keep young people away from violence, but died in a shooting over the weekend.
Three men were wounded in a shooting on Thursday night outside a liquor store in the South Chicago neighborhood.
A sixth-grade teacher and basketball coach at a school in Island Lake, Illinois, was arrested Thursday on child pornography charges.
Boise police have identified a man known as the "Unknown Wanderer" who was found dead in a church in 1982, and revealed a possible link to the Chicago Tylenol murders.
A Mundelein, Illinois, high school teacher and volleyball coach appeared in court Wednesday morning on charges of making an unauthorized video recording of a minor.
