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"People who get exposed to it, they can get cancer at high enough levels."
A Markham woman has been charged with reckless homicide and DUI in a head-on crash that killed a Cook County Sheriff's deputy Monday night in Mount Greenwood.
Cook County Sheriff's Deputy Nick Theofanopoulos was killed in a head-on crash Monday night in the Mount Greenwood neighborhood.
Streetlamps up and down Albany Avenue along 108th and 109th have been snuffed out for more than a week.
Jack Higgins was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia three years ago. While undergoing treatment, Advocate Children's Hospital in Oak Lawn asked Higgns to design a holiday card with Rizzo.
That mail carrier was making his rounds Wednesday. When asked if why he was throwing the packages around, he turned his back, refusing to answer questions.
An Alsip police officer opened fire on a man fleeing police after a drag race last week, but questions are being raised about whether the shooting was merited.
A police officer driving in southwest suburban Mount Greenwood shot a driver who hit two squad cars as he fled police overnight Wednesday.
A 20-year-old man has been ordered held without bond, charged with strangling a Mount Greenwood teenager in May.
Police said the truck responsible for the crash should have extensive damage on the passenger's side as a result of the wreck.
A retired Chicago Fire Department lieutenant had a diabetic emergency and was saved by the firefighters he has coffee with most mornings.
For more than a decade, a cemetery on the Far South Side has been working to make sure buried Civil War veterans do not go forgotten.
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.
Tiffaney Boxley said her son lost his life — and another son's freedom is now threatened — "all over nonsense. All over racism."
Blacks and whites spoke of unity, not name-calling, coming out of a three-hour closed-door meeting Wednesday night in the far southwest side Mt. Greenwood neighborhood.
In an unprecedented move, Chicago Police, school authorities and Black Lives Matter students met Friday behind closed doors after racial tensions closed a high school and shook parents.
Officials at Marist High School, a private Catholic school in Mount Greenwood, said they decided to cancel classes on Friday due to safety concerns for students.
The brother of an Indianapolis man killed by off-duty Chicago Police officers in Mount Greenwood over the weekend was released from Cook County Jail Thursday afternoon after an anonymous donor offered the funds to post his bond.
Michael Beal, 28, of Indianapolis, was ordered held in lieu of $500,000 bail on charges of aggravated battery to a police officer and attempting to disarm a police officer.
Michael Beal, 28, is charged with aggravated battery to a police officer in the incident Saturday afternoon in the Mount Greenwood neighborhood on the Southwest Side.
Protesters and counter-protesters clashed in Mount Greenwood on Sunday, a day after a 25-year-old Indianapolis man was killed in a police-involved shooting.
Chicago police were looking into the authenticity of cell phone video recorded by a witness of a fatal police-involved shooting in Mount Greenwood, after images from the video appeared to show the man who was shot pointing a gun.
A 25-year-old Indianapolis man was killed in "a police-involved shooting" in Mount Greenwood Saturday afternoon following what authorities said was a road rage incident involving a family who had just left a cemetery after burying a loved one.
The pumps at the Citgo station at 111th Street and Lawndale Avenue have been ordered shut down until water found in the tanks is removed.
Andrew Benintendi drove in the go-ahead run with an infield single in the ninth inning, four Chicago pitchers held Seattle to one hit, and the White Sox beat the Mariners 2-1.
A Glen Ellyn family is demanding criminal charges after they said their mail carrier attacked a hospice nurse as she was leaving their home.
Jacob Misiorowski pitched six scoreless innings, Brice Turang was 3 for 4 with a two-run homer, and the Milwaukee Brewers topped the Chicago Cubs 5-2 to move into first place in the NL Central.
It's the last call for one of America's longest-running beers.
Many Metra riders with disabilities have been forced to reroute their trips due to Monday's closure of the only elevator providing access to the Electric Line at Millennium Station in downtown Chicago.
The Internal Revenue Service is permanently barred from pursuing claims against President Trump or his company based on prior tax returns, part of a controversial settlement deal between the Justice Department and Mr. Trump.
Survivors say they'd asked for more medical support before the Iranian drone strike that killed six U.S. soldiers at their command post in Kuwait in the war's first 24 hours.
An attorney for Chicago Ald. Jim Gardiner (45th) on Monday called an ethics investigation into the alderman's conduct a malicious "travesty."
In a move aimed at curbing the growing problem of "teen takeovers," D.C. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro is threatening to bring charges against parents if their teens violate the local curfew.
State Rep. Josh Turek and State Sen. Zach Wahls squared off Thursday over which candidate can flip Iowa's open Republican-held Senate seat, as millions in outside spending reshapes the primary's final stretch.
Consumer and environmental advocates said Monday that they found overcharges buried in the most recent rate-hike request by Nicor.
One week away from Memorial Day weekend and the unofficial start of the summer travel season, with gas prices remaining high, negotiations were set to resume Monday at the largest oil refinery in the Midwest.
Chatham residents say they're losing a vital resource as Walgreen's prepares to close its store near 86th and Cottage Grove.
According to AAA, the average price of a gallon of regular gas in Chicago was $5.17 on Friday, up from $3.75 a year ago.
Peoples Gas and North Shore Gas Company customers are likely to see minor credits on their bills for the next three years, thanks to a $125 million settlement agreement announced Thursday by Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul.
A person suspected of having hantavirus in Winnebago County, Illinois, turned out to be a false alarm, officials said Monday.
The DuPage County Health Department has confirmed its first positive tests for West Nile virus in pools of mosquitoes this year.
The Kane County Health Department was set Monday to offer a free mental health awareness webinar.
At least 80 deaths have been reported in a new Ebola disease outbreak in Congo and Uganda, authorities said.
Engineers at Northwestern University have created a wireless polygraph to detect stress.
The owners of Gene & Georgetti steakhouse are suing a concessions operator over their expansion at Midway International Airport.
DraftKings announced Monday that it is closing its sportsbook operation at Wrigley Field after only about two years.
After more than 80 years, there will be no Ann Sather restaurant location in the 900 block of West Belmont Avenue in Chicago's Lakeview community, effective in June.
Flight attendants at Chicago-based United Airlines have approved a new labor contract, marking their first pay increases in six years.
The Chicago Fire FC announced Wednesday morning that its new stadium in the South Loop will be named McDonald's Park.
The Chicago-born house music track, which began as a personal poem in 1982 and became a defining anthem of the city's house music scene, has been selected for permanent preservation by the Library of Congress.
The Library of Congress revealed this year's list of 25 recordings to be preserved for future generations on the National Recording Registry.
David Allan Coe also had hits with "You Never Even Called Me By My Name" and "The Ride" among others.
Some youngsters got a behind-the-scenes look at the magic of making opera Sunday at the Lyric Opera of Chicago.
Matt DeCaro, an actor who was a familiar face on the Chicago stage for many years, died this weekend.
Meteorologist David Yeomans has the latest First Alert Weather forecast.
Investigators are gathering evidence and working to learn more about the two teenage gunmen responsible for the deadly shooting at an Islamic center in San Diego. So far, they have recovered dozens of guns and a crossbow from two homes they've searched.
The World Health Organization held an emergency meeting Tuedsay on the Ebola outbreak in Africa. An American doctor is among those testing positive.
A Glen Ellyn family is demanding criminal charges after they said their mail carrier attacked a hospice nurse as she was leaving their home.
A Chicago man is facing multiple charges for several bizarre and disturbing allegations, accused of posing as an art student and asking women to pose topless for a school project, and sexually abusing some of those women.
A Glen Ellyn family is demanding criminal charges after they said their mail carrier attacked a hospice nurse as she was leaving their home.
In the wake of the shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego, many Muslim Chicagoans say they're not surprised and that conditions in the world right now are right for attacks like this to happen again.
Many Metra riders with disabilities have been forced to reroute their trips due to Monday's closure of the only elevator providing access to the Electric Line at Millennium Station in downtown Chicago.
A man is being held in custody on charges that he tricked two young women into believing he was an art student working on a photography project in Chicago's Northalsted district, and went on to sexually abuse one of them.
It's the last call for one of America's longest-running beers.
Many Metra riders with disabilities have been forced to reroute their trips due to Monday's closure of the only elevator providing access to the Electric Line at Millennium Station in downtown Chicago.
Pothole complaints continue everywhere, but especially on one street in the Pullman neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago.
People in Lincoln Park and Lakeview have rallied against a plan to build a new industrial ComEd electrical substation in their neighborhoods, pushing local and state leaders to get involved.
Monday marks one year since Illinois enacted Karina's Law — legislation aimed at taking firearms out of the hands of people accused of domestic abuse.
Tenants at a South Shore apartment building said they've noticed their rent fluctuating by hundreds of dollars a month due to a change in how their utility billing system is set up.
Andrew Benintendi drove in the go-ahead run with an infield single in the ninth inning, four Chicago pitchers held Seattle to one hit, and the White Sox beat the Mariners 2-1.
Jacob Misiorowski pitched six scoreless innings, Brice Turang was 3 for 4 with a two-run homer, and the Milwaukee Brewers topped the Chicago Cubs 5-2 to move into first place in the NL Central.
Rickea Jackson's promising first season with the Chicago Sky is over after it barely began after suffering a torn ACL in Sunday's win against the Minnesota Lynx.
The Chicago Bears met with NFL owners on Tuesday in Orlando to brief them on their push for a new stadium in either Arlington Heights or Hammond.
Touted prospect Colt Emerson launched a three-run homer for his first major league hit, and the Seattle Mariners stopped a three-game slide with a 6-1 victory over the Chicago White Sox.
A man was shot and killed in the north Chicago suburb of Skokie early Tuesday.
A man is being held in custody on charges that he tricked two young women into believing he was an art student working on a photography project in Chicago's Northalsted district, and went on to sexually abuse one of them.
A suspect was due in court Tuesday on charges that he shot and killed his ex-husband's new husband in Chicago's Edgewater neighborhood.
A truck driver was sentenced to over 13 years in prison for smuggling $9.4 million worth of cocaine in a shipment of Skims, Kim Kardashian's shapewear brand.
Police in Michigan City, Indiana, were searching Monday for the person they said shot and killed a 14-year-old boy.
