Chicago police say a man who handed officers a gun near 45th and Honore told them he had found it; investigators later learned he is a convicted felon. He was taken into custody and brought to the 9th District.

A 23-year-old woman has been charged after a Jan. 5 CTA train stabbing that injured two riders. Police arrested her in Roseland and she’s due in court Friday.

A Bronzeville man was arrested this week and charged with first-degree murder in a 2023 South Side shooting. The suspect is due in court Friday.

Chicago PD expanded its Unity of Command pilot to five more districts, assigning officers to steady supervisors and capping sergeants' teams to roughly 10.

Defense lawyers argued a judge should let the public see Broadview ICE footage, saying recent federal-agent killings in Minneapolis show why. A judge ordered DHS to preserve days of tape.

An Iowa FedEx worker unexpectedly gave birth at work after saying she didn’t know she was pregnant. Both mother and baby are reported healthy and resting.

Officers interrupted an early‑morning break‑in at Kelsey’s in downtown Hinsdale; four people were arrested and four others remain at large.

An early-morning burglary at Mariscos El Abuelo y Yo left the Brighton Park restaurant with shattered glass and a stolen ATM as detectives probe links to other ATM thefts.

CFD crews fought a still-and-box blaze in the 6300 block of S. Oakley Thursday morning.

Longtime lobbyist John Kelly is weighing a Chicago mayoral bid, and his ties to Bally’s, the White Sox and outside counsel are already drawing scrutiny.

A former CPS music teacher was sentenced to five years after court documents say he exposed himself to children in West Ridge. Prosecutors dropped related counts.

Geneva will host three February open houses to explain a $59.4M bond to build a new police station and answer questions ahead of the March primary.

A quarrel outside the Thorntons at 23rd and Cicero left two men hurt, one by gunfire; town officials say both were stabilized and the incident appears isolated.