A 26-year-old man dislocated his shoulder after the black two-door car went into the water near the Playpen just before 1 a.m.

Caronne Cannon says his kids were terrified after a stolen car crashed onto his Lenore Street lawn — and Redford police pointed him to his own insurance.

A hidden GPS tag led Cook County investigators straight to a Green Line train car in the West Loop.

Police say the man in his 50s appeared to be intentionally on the tracks before a freight train struck his car in Lake Forest.

Villa Park, Oak Brook and Wheaton residents got an unwelcome 10 a.m. jolt Friday — the county's second false alarm in three days.

Officers Salas and Serrano scaled a Grant Park breakwall to save a 59-year-old man who could not swim to shore.

Jennifer H. Milner walked out of her Ford Bronco unharmed after it tore into the building's south side — no one inside was hurt either.

A woman was found lying in the street on West Van Buren before midnight; the driver never stopped.

A storm-felled tree cracked open a Merrillville trailer, revealing 48 dogs and cats crammed inside — including six-week-old puppies.

Justice Newman, a former Saint John's University basketball player, was pronounced dead at the scene on South Constance Avenue.

Gerald Meyer, 93, died hours after a two-vehicle crash flipped one car onto its roof at a busy Mount Prospect intersection.

Brian Metcalf once ran Gage Park High School. Now he owes restitution alongside two co-defendants for a scheme spanning Chicago and Indianapolis.

OSF nurses told Streator's council that kratom addiction contributed to one patient's suicide, with a vote possible September 2.