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Chicago Police Officer Joe Deferville had just pulled a guy over for driving backward down Division Street on Monday evening when another motorist drove by and said, "Officer, the building back there's on fire."
Firefighters were on the scene of a fire at a senior citizen apartment complex on the West Side on Wednesday morning that left five people injured.
A Chicago police officer was recovering Monday morning, after a man suspected of kidnapping his 2-year-old son struck the officer with his car on the West Side Sunday evening.
At least eight people were wounded in shootings in Chicago from Friday night through early Saturday.
One person has been shot by police, following a foot pursuit in the Austin neighborhood.
Firefighters will be handing out free smoke detectors in the East Garfield Park neighborhood, after a fire killed a 2-month-old baby and left 30 people without a home.
A man decided to ride his bicycle down the ramp that leads to the platform at a CTA Blue Line stop, and he ended up on the tracks.
Lincoln Park residents are upset that a predominately African American church is leaving the neighborhood in two weeks, and a Walgreens is moving in.
Four men have been killed and at least 20 people were wounded in gun violence on the city's streets from Friday night to early Sunday.
Police are seeking the public's help in finding a vehicle wanted for fatally striking a man fleeing from robbers early Sunday in the West Side Lawndale neighborhood.
Another student was robbed this week near the University of Illinois at Chicago campus, prompting campus police to issue an alert.
A gunman opened fire at Chicago Police officers overnight on the city's West Side.
A Chicago teacher was hit by a car on Wednesday while walking the picket line on the West Side.
The Illinois House has a new member.
The city's charter school administrators are reminding parents of approximately 45,000 charter school students that they are open for business Monday, regardless of the planned strike by the Chicago Teachers Union.
A 20-year-old man stands charged a string of sexual assaults on the city's West Side.
Bond was set at $100,000 Tuesday for a West Side man accused of pointing a gun at Chicago Police officers, who shot at him Sunday night in the Austin neighborhood.
No one was injured when Chicago Police exchanged gunfire with a man who was taken into custody Sunday night in the West Side Austin neighborhood.
A man died after he crashed his minivan into a light pole early Sunday in the South Lawndale neighborhood.
A blaze at a strip mall in the West Side Lawndale neighborhood left one person critically injured Saturday evening, according to a spokesman for the Chicago Fire Department.
A girl suffered a gunshot wound to the abdomen in a shooting Friday morning in the West Garfield Park neighborhood on the West Side, fire officials said.
Bond was denied for one man and set at $900,000 for his cousin Wednesday after they were charged with the robbery and fatal shooting of a man on the West Side last week.
Three men were shot early Wednesday in the Austin neighborhood on the West Side.
Police are looking for a man who forced his way into a Near West Side apartment early Monday and sexually assaulted a woman at gunpoint.
The latest sexual assault was early Saturday morning on West Gladys Avenue.
