Oswego residents within a quarter-mile of the 500 block of Colchester Drive were told to stay inside as officers responded in force.

A witness who heard gunshots from a basement called police; the two victims were taken to a hospital and pronounced dead.

A third victim was in serious-to-critical condition after gunfire hit South Commercial Avenue in South Chicago.

John Anderlik, 27, also coached a youth volleyball team in Crystal Lake before his arrest, records show.

A bogus $10 million inheritance letter landed on veteran Chicago journalist Phil Rogers' desk instead of a gullible mark.

Chiquita Wilson says her 10-year-old son now has asthma and missed school as she waits on a Chicago Housing Authority transfer.

Vincent Kehoe was already out on pretrial release for an earlier fleeing-and-eluding incident when he allegedly fled again.

Three armed robberies since late July targeted women walking alone in Little Italy for their jewelry, CPD says.

Dozens of officers gathered in a Glen Flora Avenue parking lot Wednesday night after three people were shot.

A 26-year-old Illinois man faces felony charges after a victim was stabbed in the back in East Chicago.

Decaying Midwest says an SUV driven by a man claiming to be a guard also drove into his friend, who was riding a scooter outside the shuttered Southwest Side mall.

Chicago police are searching for a 13- or 14-year-old boy after a girl was attacked in an alley near Fort Dearborn Elementary.

A federal jury found Anthony Mayers guilty after hearing he forced a witness to help move a victim's body following a deadly overdose.