The child sat with feet dangling over the St. Joseph River before officers offered calm words and takeout food to help.

The downtown Oswego project will rebuild 800 feet of road and finally link Harrison Street to Benton Street.

A dump truck loaded with driveway sealer took out eight mailboxes and a light pole before crashing into a yard, injuring the driver.

One teen was flown to Loyola Medical Center after a Route 34 crash sent a car careening into pedestrians waiting to cross.

A four-panel mural now covers boarded-up windows on Otto Boulevard, part of a push to revive downtown Chicago Heights.

No suspects are in custody after gunfire hit a 29-year-old man near a Ridgeway Avenue sidewalk.

A person was trapped inside an SUV after it collided with a semi-truck near East Main Street and Commonwealth Drive, prompting an extrication effort.

A 23-year-old victim drove himself to the hospital after the daytime shooting, the fourth on this South Shore block in just over a year.

Police say a Facebook-style item purchase turned violent Friday night, sending an Elgin man to the hospital with a gunshot wound.

A routine Interstate 55 stop in Pontiac uncovered four children and two dogs riding in an enclosed cargo hold bound for Michigan.

The Friday afternoon crash on the 8400 block happened on a corridor already flagged for thousands of yearly wrecks.

All four patients are adults in suburban Cook County, where 44 cases and four deaths were recorded last year.

A 2025 Cook County DNA sample linked Jason Osborne to a 2019 Harris County warrant, ending his run in Evergreen Park.