Ogden Avenue shut down between Wenonah and Wisconsin as investigators worked the fatal scene. Police say the semi's role in the crash remains unclear.

A Kane County jury convicted Quinton Hawkins after a 7-year-old testified he threatened to kill her if she told anyone.

Three of five crash victims were rushed to South Side hospitals in serious-to-critical shape after the early Wednesday wreck near 75th and Cottage Grove.

A passenger fired from a passing sedan on South Central Avenue, leaving a 16-year-old and an 18-year-old fighting for their lives.

The boy was hit in the leg on South Emerald Avenue, a block with a violent recent history.

A judge ordered Don Williams Jr. detained after a juvenile and four others were found in his car during a wild I-290 chase.

A 23-year-old was shot near Ruble and Roosevelt just weeks after a nearly identical attack on the same block.

The collision froze Milwaukee District West service in both directions, just weeks after a bicyclist was struck at the same stop.

A neighbor mistook the flash for lightning before calling 911 as Gurnee police began CPR on the scene.

Police say the man attacked the woman with a steak knife before turning it on himself on South Christiana Avenue.

The boy was grazed on the stomach and shot in the forearm on South Normal Avenue — the same corridor hit by an ambush shooting a day earlier.

Shayde Fisher gave up a stable car dealership job in Wheeling after scammers posed as a German company hiring for $45 an hour.

The victim was rushed to Stroger Hospital after being approached and shot on the Near West Side. Police have not made an arrest.