Deputies spent up to 45 minutes behind bars after a dispute over a murder suspect's family hug, a union says.

The driver gestured for the teen to get in before the SUV circled the block five times. Detectives are investigating.

A man was rushed to Stroger Hospital after being approached and shot on North Kedzie Avenue. No one is in custody.

Firefighters battled burning appliance piles at a Cicero Avenue recycling facility, sending smoke over Chicago's West Side.

Tanya Fermin says the woman was reaching for her purse in the back seat when flames took hold.

The driver said a passenger performed a sex act in her backseat.

Eduardo Fajardo Jr. allegedly fled after his pickup killed 19-year-old Adrian Rogel-Villanueva, who lay in a field for hours before he was found.

A Cook County judge sided with Guaranteed Dispensary near Northwestern Memorial, rejecting claims tied to a zoning board member's son.

A Danville prisoner's federal suit over blocked videophones lands amid years of unmet accommodation promises across Illinois prisons.

Victims say the payouts, covering abuse dating to the early 1970s, bring some measure of justice decades later.

Chuck Wehrli helped recover a fallen FDNY firefighter and later developed Stage IV tongue cancer from Ground Zero dust.

Pierre French pleaded guilty to killing Dreanna Booker in front of a divorce that was one month from final.

A federal judge said Carl Fioravanti chased money even as workers breathed in cancer-causing dust at a Waukegan hospital demolition.