Medical Examiner's List Of Unidentified Bodies Begins Yielding Results
Just a few weeks after the Cook County Medical Examiner put its list of unidentified and unclaimed remains online, a family has now stepped forward to make identification.
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Just a few weeks after the Cook County Medical Examiner put its list of unidentified and unclaimed remains online, a family has now stepped forward to make identification.
March 9, 1909 is the birthdate of Max Fabian. He's kind of a character.
A state lawmaker wants Illinois to stop using schools as polling places on Election Day, but the idea doesn't sit well with local election authorities.
It has been a year and a half since a McHenry man found tens of thousands of dollars in cash in his garden; and as he and two other people wind their way through the courts to claim it, one of them is telling more about how he lost thousands of dollars - instead of a bug.
The metal giraffes that graced a Lakeview street for almost 35 years have been put up for sale, if the new owner puts them back where they used to be.
Two protesters from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), staged a brief anti-fur protest in their underwear Wednesday afternoon along the Magnificent Mile.
No surgery has been performed on the patients at the clinic, but it is not out of the question in the future for older teenagers - with parental consent.
A 22-year-old man from Naperville has filed a lawsuit against Lifetime Fitness Clubs, alleging he was sexually abused by a trainer, starting when he was 16.
Genevieve Klimczak's body was found just outside a door of the McHenry Villa retirement center, after a night of 7-degree weather.
More than 130 people - from 47 countries - became new citizens this afternoon in downtown Chicago.
Hector Morales was rushing to get his pregnant wife Kathryn Engle to the hospital had to pull over at a gas station in Cicero and help is wife deliver the baby in their van.
The letter came from the property manager for the new landlord of VFW Post 2377 in Glendale Heights, telling them "flags are prohibited."
The president announced he will press Congress to pass legislation requiring background checks on all gun purchases; reinstate the ban on military-style assault weapons; renew a 10-round limit on the size of ammunition magazines; and prohibit the possession, transfer, manufacture, or import of armor-piercing bullets.
Investigators believe a shipment of 18 human heads intercepted by customs officials at O'Hare International Airport are, in fact, legitimate medical specimens, authorities said Tuesday.
A young mother has been charged with child endangerment, after her son was found running by himself in the Englewood neighborhood on Monday night.
Monday was supposed to be the beginning of the no-cell phone policy, but on Friday the chief judge's office said there would be a three-month grace period. Thus, perhaps, the confusion.
Rev. Jesse Jackson and part of his family gathered at Rainbow/PUSH headquarters at 50th and Drexel on Tuesday to mark the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation.
Joseph Finley, 63, said the pit bull attack at Rainbow Beach Park is never very far from his mind.
There will be no 2013 for a South Loop liquor store. WBBM Newsradio's Steve Miller reports.
A local adoption agency is encouraging people to contact their senators and congressmen to ask them to urge Russia to let those adoptions already in progress to proceed.
Car thieves in Chicago are using a variety of tools these days - including a couple of things that are somewhat surprising.
Overdue snow has left an empty feeling with some people, including business owners who depend on snow for their livelihood.
He thought he simply had a high fever, but a Round Lake Beach man actually had Legionnaire's Disease, a deadly form of pneumonia that nearly killed him.
The family of a Maine West High School freshman is suing the school district, claiming their son was sexually assaulted during a hazing ritual in September. WBBM's Steve Miller reports.
32 American students are among the "best of the best" being offered Rhodes Scholarships to study at Oxford University.
