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Cook County prosecutors said Monday that a 16-year-old honor student was drunk on vodka and high on ecstasy and marijuana when he stole an SUV, fled from a traffic stop and then crashed into the car of a 911 dispatcher, killing her on Sunday.
A man was who was stabbed early Sunday at a park in the South Side Englewood neighborhood has died.
It was another violent weekend in Chicago, with gunfire and stabbings killing six people and leaving at least 21 hurt – including a 7-year-old boy and a 12-year-old girl..
Anna Schulz, a longtime Gary, Ind. school teacher, was found dead in her home in Merrillville earlier this week.
The Seattle man charged with the murder of a 7-year-old girl more than half a century ago says he didn't do it, and he has an ironclad alibi.
An 80-year-old woman – a longtime teacher in northwestern Indiana – has been found slain inside her home.
A suspected killer dubbed "the Hollywood Ripper" has been charged in the 1993 stabbing death of a teenage girl from the northern suburbs.
A Seattle man arrested in the 1957 killing of a girl in Sycamore has been charged with being a fugitive, as authorities attempt to have him returned to Illinois to face murder charges.
A man is dead after a shooting on Sunday in the Englewood neighborhood on the South Side.
A Vernon Hills man has been indicted by a grand jury, on charges that he killed his wife during a domestic dispute.
A 23-year-old South Side man is expected in bond court Thursday, accused of killing his girlfriend's 18-month-old son.
Authorities are describing a litany of disturbing injuries to an 18-month-old South Side boy who died this week.
A carjacker who ran over a senior citizen after stealing his car outside a Southwest Side Walgreens was sentenced Tuesday to 45 years in prison.
An Oswego man charged with killing his wife and three children in 2007 might have been researching ways to fake his own death.
A 55-year-old man was killed and at least 14 others were wounded in shootings throughout the city between late Saturday and Sunday morning, including five men wounded in separate shootings during a violent 20-minute period on the South Side.
A 55-year-old man is dead after being shot Saturday night in the Englewood neighborhood on the South Side.
A Will County man who stabbed his former landlord more than 100 times and then robbed his home has been sentenced to 55 years in prison after being convicted of murder and home invasion.
More evidence has been given to an attorney representing a DeKalb man charged in the death of a slain NIU student.
A woman attends a friend's funeral. A year later she is accused of his murder.
A clerk at an Englewood convenience store was shot and killed Saturday night. It was the second time in six years that an employee of the store was shot and killed there.
Police are trying to find out who killed a 59-year-old southwest suburban man whose body was found in his home after a burglary.
A 41-year-old Arlington Heights man has been charged with the murder of his father in their home earlier this week.
The probe continues into the bizarre death of Christian Choate – the 13-year-old boy who was kept in a dog cage for a year in a Northwest Indiana trailer park.
A son whom police describe as troubled is in custody and hospitalized, after allegedly admitting to the murder of his father in Arlington Heights.
A man is set to be sentenced Monday in the 2008 murder of a pizzeria owner whom the man thought was part of a rival gang.
