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.

Nearly 300 people, including dozens of Chicago science teachers, filled the sold-out Jackson Park forum on comedy and civics.

Chicago’s Saturday stays mostly dry near 80, but Sunday brings a chance of storms before a hotter week takes over.

A Parks employee found the body Friday morning after seasonal lifeguard cuts left Lee Street Beach unwatched. Police say no ID has been found yet.

Davaughn Walker, 25, died of multiple gunshot wounds on Cooper Avenue. It's Harvey's third fatal shooting investigation since late July.

Thousands of LED candles and a string quintet reimagine “Bootylicious” and “Survivor” inside a hotel built for the 1893 World's Fair.