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The victim was rushed to Stroger Hospital after being approached and shot on the Near West Side. Police have not made an arrest.
The engine also struck a stoplight after leaving the roadway near Augusta and Long. Both firefighters' conditions remain unknown.
Michael Peterson's family donated his heart, lungs, liver and kidneys after he was declared brain dead at Froedtert Hospital.
A 22-second video shows an Illinois State police officer narrowly escaping shattered glass as 60 mph winds tore through campus during freshman move-in.
A brick through the glass, a loaded shopping cart, then gone — police want tips on the Belmont Cragin and North Austin break-ins.
Roy Pughsley allegedly slept inside the State Street flagship, snacking from a restaurant kitchen before fleeing with clothes at 3:25 a.m.
Federal investigators have offered their largest-ever reward in the 2018 disappearance of pregnant Chatham mail carrier Kierra Coles.
The North Leavitt Street shooting is the second gun violence case on that block this year, after a fatal March ambush nearby.
Fire crews had to cut open a mangled sedan to free someone trapped inside near Clark and State streets.
A loud boom and possible transformer explosion cut power to more than 5,000 people in East Chicago while Dyer runs its wastewater plant on generators.
Punches flew in the Wrigley Field bleachers Monday night as fans clashed during a wild Crosstown Classic opener.
A red SUV tore into the East 63rd Street station Tuesday, the fourth South Side gas station hit this summer alone.
Chicago police swarmed West 50th and Racine Monday evening after a car reportedly plowed into a building, badly damaging a second vehicle.
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