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A 60-year-old Chicago man died after a shooting at a Wheeling MainStay Suites — the hotel's second gun incident in less than a year.
Grayson died Sunday, six months into his 20-year term, after the state parole board rejected his bid for early medical release.
A gunman fired from a passing car in the 1900 block of West Cermak Road, hitting a teenager sitting near the sidewalk.
A dozen fans traded punches and stomps in Section 518 as security rushed in with handcuffs at the ready.
Chicago Fire Department divers recovered the woman near 45th Street; it's the area's second fatal lakefront incident in under a week.
A 33-year-old man is jailed on attempted murder charges after allegedly stabbing an older man on South Kedzie Avenue.
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.
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