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A federal judge rejected the city's bid to slash a civil rights attorney's hourly rate, noting Chicago outspent the winning legal team by 3,000 hours.
Elijah Rowden loves monster trucks and making people laugh. His family is now racing to find a trial that could save him.
He was found near closing time with a neck wound; police have not released his name or a motive.
A vehicle tore into a garage near Lowell and Payne Streets in Skokie, leaving the neighboring home damaged too.
The fatal shooting actually happened in Riverdale's Altgeld Gardens complex, over 10 miles from the Grand Boulevard neighborhood named in early reports.
Police say the same black SUV or sedan ferried the crew to at least four hold-ups, including an Uber driver at a Shell station.
A helicopter was called off due to weather, so crews rushed the player by ground ambulance to Lake County's only Level 1 trauma center.
A gunman walked up on foot and opened fire late Saturday on the 6200 block of South May Street, police say.
Police say a 48-year-old woman died at the scene as a crowd gathered and officers tracked a blood trail across the street.
At least three gunpoint robberies in eight days targeted pedestrians near Lake Meadows, with suspects demanding phone passcodes before fleeing on foot.
Christopher Buckley’s blood-alcohol level hit 0.221% during his Michigan City arrest, records show, and he still won’t leave the November ballot.
Troopers and deputies swarmed a commercial strip near I-65 in Lowell Saturday night, but key details on victims remain unreleased.
A late-night argument with someone inside a white sedan ended in gunfire on South Vincennes Avenue, the same Chatham block where three people died in 2024.
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