Friends, Relatives Remember Family Killed In Villa Park
One of the four people who was shot to death and then set on fire in a home in unincorporated Villa Park was honored at his high school on Wednesday.
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One of the four people who was shot to death and then set on fire in a home in unincorporated Villa Park was honored at his high school on Wednesday.
Anticipating a "very rare" suicide defense from accused family killer Christopher Vaughn, a Will County judge ruled Thursday jurors may see several online chat messages and emails written by his late wife, Sun-Times Media is reporting.
A teenage girl who took her life on railroad tracks in Naperville last month was a resident of a home that is supposed to protect some of the state's most vulnerable young people. CBS 2's Dave Savini investigated allegations the home was out of control.
It has been more than six months since 6-year-old Timmothy Pitzen was last seen, and police have released new surveillance video in hopes that someone will come forward with information.
A man charged in the murder of a security guard at an Auburn-Gresham neighborhood Aldi store was found hanged in his cell at a police station lockup early Thursday.
The CTA is reporting "major delays" on the Blue Line on the Near West Side after a person was struck by a train at the Medical Center stop.
The family of a 10-year-old girl in east central Illinois says intense bullying caused the fifth-grader to kill herself late last week.
A person walking through a northwest suburban forest preserve Tuesday evening encountered a grisly sight — the body of a man hanging from a tree, victim of an apparent suicide.
Blood belonging to a 6-year-old missing Aurora boy whose mother committed suicide has been discovered in the woman's van, although police say it could have been the result of a mere bloody nose.
Chicago Police say she committed suicide. Her family believes she was murdered. It's another questionable case from 2010, the year the police claimed its crime fighting techniques had dramatically reduced the city's murder rate.
The body of an Elgin man was found Monday morning on the lakefront bike path near North Avenue Beach.
Autopsies were inconclusive on two elderly women who died Thursday when the car they were riding in collided with a Metra Rock Island District train.
Thomas Emma was drafted by the Chicago Bulls after a career at Duke University that included being named the captain of the 1983 team. On Wednesday, Emma was found dead in New York.
Aurora police hope evidence from a sport-utility vehicle will help them find a 6-year-old boy who has been missing for nearly three weeks.
Police have uncovered new clues in the frantic search for a missing 6-year-old Aurora boy, as the search moved to northwest Illinois on Thursday.
The hunt for a missing 6-year-old Aurora boy has intensified, with involvement now from the feds.
Relatives of an Aurora woman, who committed suicide in a Rockford motel room, are out searching for the woman's missing son in western Illinois.
The search for a missing Aurora boy has now moved to at least three states.
The two-time defending champion of the Chicago Marathon is dead at the age of 24.
The two-time defending champion of the Chicago Marathon is dead at the age of 24.
Six-year-old Timothy J. Pitzen remains missing Sunday afternoon, and authorities continue to look for leads in his disappearance, a day after his mother was found dead inside a Rockford motel room after slitting her wrists.
News is coming out about a bizarre and tragic evening earlier this year at the South Side's Jackson Park Hospital, involving two incidents with suicidal patients.
Former Bear Dave Duerson's degenerative brain injuries might not even have qualified for benefit under the NFL disability plan he himself helped create, according to a published report.
Former Chicago Bear Dave Duerson had brain damage when he committed suicide in February, according to the Boston University center that studies brain injuries to professional athletes.
