3 Killed, 1 Injured In Crash On Eisenhower Expressway
Around 2:15 a.m., a car struck a pole at a high rate of speed in the outbound lanes of the Eisenhower near Western Avenue.
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Around 2:15 a.m., a car struck a pole at a high rate of speed in the outbound lanes of the Eisenhower near Western Avenue.
It's legislation that aims to prevent children from being exposed to lead poisoning in their drinking water.
Trains were moving along smoothly Friday morning on the South Shore Line, a day after some serious trouble on the track left thousands of passengers stranded due to icy conditions.
Wet and slick roads brought the salt trucks out in full force Thursday morning with dangerous travel conditions.
A mother and her two children were found dead in their home in northwest suburban Lake in the Hills on Tuesday afternoon, in what authorities said appears to be a murder-suicide.
Newly released tapes have offered a clearer picture of a chaotic and shocking scene that played out at a busy intersection in the Mount Greenwood neighborhood two months ago, when an off-duty police officer shot and killed 25-year-old Joshua Beal.
A family escaped an early morning fire in the Roseland neighborhood on Wednesday, when a young man helped lead his grandparents out of the burning house.
762 people were murdered last year, but on Sunday, Superintendent Eddie Johnson is aiming to bring that number down in 2017.
Police are looking for the driver that killed a woman in a hit-and-run in the Austin neighborhood.
Chicago will end 2016 with nearly 800 murders, a level of bloodshed not seen in two decades, as city leaders struggle to find a solution to the surge in gun violence this year.
In 2017, the city will repeal its ban on plastic bags, but will push back a new shopping bag tax by a month.
The woman was sitting with a man in the vestibule of an apartment building in the 2400 block of East 74th Place around 1 a.m., when another man walked in and opened fire.
The Chicago Police Department will be equipping every patrol officer in the city with body cameras a year ahead of schedule.
The girls, ages 13 and 14, were sitting in the minivan in the 7500 block of South Union Avenue, when two men walked up and opened fire around 11:30 p.m., police said.
Two men were killed and five other people were wounded, two critically, in a mass shooting Sunday night in the East Chatham neighborhood on the South Side, police said.
More than 100-million Americans are traveling for Christmas, Hanukah and New Year's.
The fire started around 1 a.m. at a home in the 600 block of Mohave Street.
A 47-year-old woman was shot in the face Monday evening, when a stray bullet went through the window of a Calumet City daycare center.
Cold and coping go hand in hand today, especially for people who have no choice but to brave the arctic blast to live or work outdoors.
Some of those most affected by the bitter cold this week in Chicago are the homeless, and to help raise awareness of their struggles, crisis responder Andrew Holmes slept outside all night at the Lawrence Avenue viaduct in Uptown.
Dangerously cold weather was moving into the Chicago area on Tuesday, with lows expected to dip into the single digits overnight, and to plunge below zero early Thursday.
Chicago got nearly eight inches of snow over the weekend, forcing airlines to cancel more than 1,000 flights, and now the city must brace for much colder weather later in the week.
The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in federal court in Chicago, claimed Deerfield-based MVP Staffing denied jobs to African-American applicants.
The two teenage girls are seeking to be reinstated as seniors at Marist, or reimbursed $65,000 each for tuition and school costs. The lawsuit also seeks at least $1 million in damages for invasion of privacy.