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Crime & Emergencies in ...
A pre-dawn Rockwell Street stakeout ended with a 25-year-old man in Cook County Jail, awaiting extradition to Georgia.
Suspects broke display cases and stole cash and jewelry across three Chicago neighborhoods since July. One store on South Cicero was hit twice.
Elease Tolar, 69, died after a multi-vehicle wreck on I-57 near Ludlow. State police are still piecing together how it happened.
An outbound morning train struck and killed a pedestrian near Forest Glen station, snarling Northwest Side service for two hours.
Police found the wounded man shot in the chest near 600 North Spaulding Avenue Thursday afternoon. No one is in custody.
DNA and a modified Glock finally tied Alexander Hoegner to Joseph Kalamaris's death — more than a year after his body turned up in a parked SUV.
Transportation & Infrastructure in ...
A collapsed state bid left Yorkville paying 27% more per ton, so crews are leaning on brine and calcium additives to stretch supplies.
A 21-year-old faces a mandatory 21-year minimum if convicted, while his teen co-defendant stays shielded in juvenile court.
Daniel O'Neill allegedly chased two apartment workers with a machete before a hours-long standoff on North Charles Avenue.
Beverly, Morgan Park and Washington Heights get nighttime insecticide trucks Thursday as positive mosquito pools climb past 165.
A Martin Luther King Drive search warrant turned up three guns and over 100 grams of cocaine, Cook County officials say.
Mayor Brandon Johnson cut the ribbon on two upgraded gates at O'Hare, with the full ElevateT3 project still on track for 2027.
Trent Arbuckle, 56, once ran the control room at McLean County's jail. He's now locked up in a different county's facility.
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