8 Arrested After Brawl Shuts Down Fox Valley Mall
The day after Christmas turned chaotic at Fox Valley Mall in Aurora, where Boxing Day was taken quite literally when a series of brawls broke out on Monday.
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The day after Christmas turned chaotic at Fox Valley Mall in Aurora, where Boxing Day was taken quite literally when a series of brawls broke out on Monday.
Some people in Chicago were still buying Christmas Trees on Christmas Eve; some looking for bargains, some by tradition.
The Christmas weekend had a tragic start in Gary, Indiana, as three children died, and a woman was injured in a fire in an apartment building late Friday night.
For more than 90 years, the infamous Chicago Union Stock Yards fire stood as the deadliest blaze for big city firefighters in American history. On the 106th anniversary of the inferno, the Chicago Fire Department honored the 21 firefighters who died battling the intense flames.
The fire started around 1 a.m. at a home in the 600 block of Mohave Street.
Chicago billionaire Ken Griffin has donated $12 million to the Chicago Park District to make the Lakefront Trail safer by creating separate paths for joggers and cyclists along all 18 miles of the trail.
Firefighters rescued two teenage sisters from a house fire early Tuesday in west suburban Elgin, after the sisters sent their brothers running out of the home.
A Bronzeville neighborhood community organization has asked for donations to help 10 children whose homes were destroyed by fire earlier this week in the Kenwood neighborhood.
Ron Allen, of Naperville, was heading back home after playing cards with friends on Dec. 2, when someone shot him as he was driving on the 1300 block of North Laramie Avenue.
Posen Police Chief Doug Hoglund said police responded to a crash in the 14300 block of Harrison Avenue around 3 a.m.
Chicago's newest police recruit might not be tall enough to reach the pedals on a squad car, but he definitely means business.
Video of cars sliding off an Indianapolis street on Tuesday to avoid a Comcast truck that had blocked part of the road has gone viral.
Activists set up tents outside the shelter on Tuesday, to illustrate the lack of options for homeless who depend on the beds inside.
The pilot of the small plane crash on Saturday in Marengo has been identified as Robert I. Sherman.
One person was killed in a plane crash overnight in northwest suburban Marengo.
Homeless people who live under Lake Shore Drive viaducts asked the city on Friday to show some compassion and stop the cleanings that force them to remove their belongings.
Donations to the Salvation Army help in a lot of ways.
Images of their gracefully forming majestic patterns, high in the sky, have been captured by people all over the region.
Hoping to find the person who shot an AT&T worker after a robbery in west suburban Berwyn last week, the company and a community activist have announced $11,000 in combined reward money for information leading to an arrest.
Chanting "No vote on Target," residents of the 22-story Caroline Hedger Apartments at Sheridan Road and Devon Avenue spoke a CHA board meeting at 48th and Wabash on Tuesday, urging the board to reject the plan.
South Bend police are warning residents not to warm up their cars unattended after a rash of thefts.
A former Milwaukee teacher has been sentenced to prison for the sexual assault of a 16-year-old boy.
"We asked him to be sensitive while at Soldier Field to the sacrifices made by those who defended his freedom," former Ald. James Balcer says.
Two Indiana State Police troopers have been credited with saving a man's life after a drug-related crash near Gary on Thursday.
Sheriff Tom Dart said hate crimes have been on the rise in recent years, and some people have been emboldened even more in recent weeks.
