Bond was set Monday for two men charged in a South Side dogfight.
A man who drove himself to a hospital after he was shot several times in the chest died after the Sunday night incident in the South Side’s Grand Crossing neighborhood.
A former Elmhurst College student who claimed she had been attacked on campus because she is a Muslim pleaded not guilty today to falsifying a police report.
Eight freshly unsealed court documents detail profanity-laced conversations secretly taped by a federal witness as he planned with former political powerhouse Edward Vrdolyak to get a $1.5 million real estate kickback.
A man found dead in the West Side's Humboldt Park neighborhood Sunday morning was shot multiple times, police said.
There was a crowd of 50 in all, including a pregnant woman and two teenagers, jammed into the tiny basement of an Englewood home allegedly cheering on the two pit bulls ripping each other apart in a makeshift ring, authorities said.
Two people were injured in west suburban Batavia after a crash between two SUVs near Fermi Lab Monday morning.
A man was charged with stealing a sport-utility vehicle at gunpoint early Sunday on the Southwest Side.
Ten people, including seven police officers, were injured in separate traffic accidents late Saturday.
Chicago Police say they've solved a 2004 homicide case with the arrest of Dantony Chamblis, 26, of the 8300 block of South Brandon. Chamblis was charged with first-degree murder over the weekend.
Life was imitating art when crime novelist Laura Caldwell lay face down on a Lincoln Park street holding pieces of her shattered teeth in her bloody palm. Her upcoming book, Red Hot Lies, portrays a red-headed female lawyer walking at night through the Old Town neighborhood, feeling increasingly uncomfortable as she realizes she is being followed. On Thursday, Caldwell was jogging at Seminary and Altgeld in Lincoln Park when she saw two men.
A man was killed in an apparent gang-related shooting near his home in the South Side’s Pilsen neighborhood early Saturday.
Local rapper Bump J has been arrested on bank robbery charges.
A man arrested for trespassing died Wednesday morning while being detained at a South Loop police station.
An Avondale woman was ordered held in lieu of $750,000 bail today in the kidnapping of 3-year-old Sana Patel as her parents shopped for groceries at a Northwest Side pharmacy earlier this week.
Woman charged with kidnapping toddler
There were a few reasons state officials believed they had probable cause to hold convicted felon William Balfour on a parole violation, authorities said Monday.
Police do not believe the elderly woman found living in a north suburban home with three dead siblings was engaging in Social Security fraud, a police spokesman said Monday.
An 8-year-old boy was killed and his brother and uncle injured when the SUV they were in struck a Northwest Side building Saturday evening in the Forest Glen neighborhood.
With just under two months left in the year, Chicago has already surpassed last year's total homicide count. Two teenage boys shot and killed on an Englewood street Thursday evening were the latest victims. The deaths of Brian Murdock, 15, and Quinton Buckner, 17, brought the total number of people killed to at least 447, according to reports from the Sun-Times News Group wire.
The night before Election Day, a Cook County judge was mugged just blocks from Barack Obama's home in the Kenwood neighborhood. Judge Eileen Brewer, a highly rated Harvard Law grad like Obama, lives a few streets away from the president-elect. The robbery happened Monday night, hours before voters would elect Obama president and retain Brewer as a judge.
It wasn't what the "Cadillac Bandit" took out of a bank that tripped him up.
An Elk Grove Village man accused of fatally beating his mother in her home a month after she obtained an order of protection against him disrupted his first court appearance today to insist he's innocent.
Police discovered a driver fatally shot inside a burning vehicle and a second person shot multiple times outside the vehicle Tuesday night on the Southeast Side.
Two women and a man were stabbed by someone they knew during a fight just outside a drinking establishment early Monday in the Near North Side’s Wicker Park neighborhood. A suspect was taken into custody shortly after the stabbing, police said.
Schaumburg police officer Frank Russo died while trying to apprehend a suspect early Saturday, becoming the first officer in the history of the village to die in the line of duty. Russo, 47, was not scheduled to work Saturday, but had volunteered to work a shift outside John Barleycorn at 1100 American Lane.
Tests have confirmed a .45-caliber pistol hidden in bushes on the West Side had been used in the slayings of Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Hudson's brother, mother and nephew, officials said. Police Supt. Jody Weis told reporters he was "extraordinarily pleased" by the break in the case.
Chicago police are conducting a homicide investigation Friday morning after a man was found dead in a South Side alley.
For 28 years, Ronald Rice allegedly thought he got away with murder -- so sure, he even bragged about it.
Two cars crashed near an Old Town intersection Wednesday morning sending one of the vehicles into a Starbucks coffee shop.
On the morning of the day Jennifer Hudson's mother and brother were killed, the singer's sister Julia Hudson had argued with her estranged husband over car payments, sources say. The husband, William Balfour, is in custody but has not been charged with the killings of Jennifer Hudson's mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew.
A man was wounded in a drive-by shooting Sunday night in the Back-of-the-Yards neighborhood on the South Side.
A motorist was critically injured early Sunday when he slammed into a semi truck on the Southwest Side and was pinned underneath the truck.
Police are probing the murder of a man found dead at a residence in the Northwest Side's Kelvyn Park neighborhood Saturday afternoon.
A north suburban man has been arrested for allegedly kidnapping and sexually abusing a mentally disabled girl while attending religious services last spring in northwest suburban Palatine.
A man was stabbed this morning when he helped stop a burglar fleeing a Lincoln Park apartment.
A 24-year-old woman faces three to seven years in prison after pleading guilty Wednesday to placing her newborn son in a plastic bag and tying it shut last year.
Three are dead after a woman’s ex-boyfriend stabbed her male friend to death, then crashed a vehicle into a squad car, killing himself and his 2-year-old son, Tuesday morning in northwest Indiana police said.
Police are looking for a man with an "extremely long finger" and crooked upper tooth who made off with an expensive piece of jewelry from a northwest suburban jewelry store last week.
Detectives in Wheaton are investigating two reported attempted abductions of teen girls this week in the city.
