West Garfield Park residents want solutions on gun violence
A district council meeting was filled with neighbors calling for peace and asking everyone to step up to create a safer environment for families.
Meet Lake County's top K9 trainer, Alex Rothacker
"They help the public save kids. They save people's lives. They save elderly people's lives."
Vendors left in the dust during NASCAR event
"I think it's a great addition to our summer entertainment scene. And we are hearing hotels along the race route are approaching sell out or are already sold out for that weekend."
Buffalo Grove High School students to return for first time since crash killed four
Interim District 214 Supt. Ken Arndt called this one of the toughest periods in the history of the school district.
4 Buffalo Grove High School students killed in Wheeling crash
Rows of flowers in the four teens' honor lay at the crash site – in a growing memorial.
Glenbrook South High School staffers hospitalized after unusual odor in science wing
This comes just 10 days after the school was evacuated after a fire broke out in the woodshop.
Hundreds of Chicago moms prepare to rally for gun safety legislation at state capitol
An organizer said the state has passed productive gun control legislation in the past, but other bills are up for discussion this session in Springfield.
Nurse who recently quit says West Side nursing home has squalid conditions
The facility is now on watch by the federal government.
Englewood shooting leaves two people dead, three wounded
Police said a 26-year-old man and a 20-year-old man were both pronounced dead at the University of Chicago Medical Center after being shot.
4 charged with first-degree murder of CPD officer Areanah Preston
Areanah Preston, 24, was shot around 1:42 a.m. on Saturday in the 8100 block of South Blackstone Avenue in the Avalon Park neighborhood.
The criminal histories of the suspects in CPD Officer Areanah Preston's murder
While on probation for robbery, he was arrested multiple times for weapons offenses, armed robbery and having a stolen car.
Chicago police station houses dozens of migrant families
Dozens of families sit outside of the 12th district police station. Everything they own, pillows, blankets, strollers, were stacked on the sidewalk.
Fallen CPD Officer Areanah Preston remembered as a 'spirit of light'
Preston was killed in the line of duty and will have a full honors funeral.
Former employee describes chaos when Lincolnshire nursing home patients left without care
The Illinois Department of Public Health is now launching its own investigation.
South Shore residents decry plans to use shuttered school as migrant 'respite center'
"While this may constitute an emergency for the city of Chicago, it does not constitute an emergency for the South Shore community," said Ald. Michelle Harris (8th).