A week of tastings, dinners and a bus tour to Billy Goat Tavern brings the martini's Brooklyn-born convention to Chicago bars.

A three-and-a-half-hour power loss shut down the Joliet-area refinery Sunday, and analysts warn Great Lakes gas prices could climb.

A foundation permit lets crews start work on the Near West Side church's new home, with a 12-story tower possibly to follow.

Deputies surrounded the Burr Street home until the suspect walked out the front door on his own.

One person was killed and six others injured after six people were shot near an alley and a 30-year-old woman was struck by gunfire and crashed into a CTA bus.

Legal Prep Charter Academy has a student-led Peace Warriors program focused on reducing violence.

A driver took off in an unattended USPS truck on South State Street, sideswiping a car before police stopped the vehicle.

Chicago gets a cooler Sunday with possible afternoon showers as temperatures and humidity change into Tuesday.

A verbal fight escalated into gunfire on South Halsted, the third fatal shooting on the strip since March.

A Kankakee Township resident living two miles from the Schahfer plant says the 150-page permit is nearly impossible for citizens to parse.

Michael Jones vanished 20 miles off Chicago's shore. Volunteer divers, not local agencies, brought him home.

The attacker approached each victim from behind at three Avondale locations, police say. One getaway came in a red sedan.

Joaquin Brito locked his La Florencia Bakery doors during last fall's clash. He says agents still linger on East Side streets.