Jo’maury Champ, 9, testified he was struck about 20 times in a Tilton Elementary bathroom after his teacher allegedly arranged it.

A Bolingbrook pastor who counseled Stacy Peterson says she described being coached to lie to police just weeks before she vanished.

Devion Allen, 27, stabbed a sleeping Lincoln Park man in 2024 before the victim wrestled the knife away.

Annette Johnson still has a board seat through 2029 despite four federal wire fraud charges in Aurora.

The shooting happened at 6:01 p.m. in the 10500 block of South Eggleston Avenue. Police say no one has been arrested.

Rufus Dismuke, 56, faces multiple charges after a family member tracked him down at a Taco Bell and recorded the confrontation.

A motorcyclist-and-truck crash at Grand and Lamont closed westbound Grand Avenue as police worked the scene into the evening.

A McHenry County judge says Andrew Franklin used coded messages and bought emergency contraception to hide an alleged months-long assault.

A 15-year-old's social media post prompted a large police response at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. College Prep, but no explosives turned up.

Chicago police reported a late-September arrest in Bronzeville involving a person possessing a ghost gun.

Security screening at Corliss High School caught a gun during Monday morning entry screening. No one was hurt, the principal says.

Antonio Hernandez allegedly fled from Hanover Park to Elmhurst before spike strips disabled three tires on the Charger; it continued to the 17th Street ramp off I-290, where he fled on foot.

A jury convicted Allen Woods of murdering Tiffany Woods, who he had once threatened to shoot inside her own home.