The suspect poses as a customer buying a drink before pulling a knife on cashiers from Avondale to Portage Park.

The wounded teen drove himself to Mount Sinai Hospital after being shot in the arm and back. No arrests have been made.

Investigators say alleged threats preceded the pre-dawn fires at the dual-purpose Aberdeen Street venue in West Loop.

A white Jeep repeatedly slammed into an East 87th Street business before four people fled in a getaway SUV, leaving the crash vehicle behind.

A nonprofit that trades volunteer hours for plane tickets reunited Petty Officer Rachel Christy with her family at O'Hare.

A 29-year-old man died at Advocate Christ Medical Center after a street fight turned into a shooting Sunday night in Chicago Lawn.

Retired teachers subbing in Naperville-area schools will see daily pay drop from $310 to $200, even as the district still faces a multimillion-dollar deficit.

Police cited two teens with pellet guns as the shuttered Congress Theater faces new damage ahead of its $88 million rebuild.

A man, 31, and woman, 40, were shot on South Normal Avenue as three armed men fled on foot, Chicago police say.

Darren Bryant was treated and released after a masked gunman opened fire inside Harold's Chicken Ice Bar. Officials say he wasn't the target.

Three men slipped into the water near 31st Street Beach after 11 p.m. — a bystander and firefighters pulled all three out.

Bally's says it could default within a year, even as it insists the halted River West hotel and theater work is unrelated to its cash crunch.

The homicide on South Claire Boulevard echoes a fatal shooting one year earlier almost to the day, just blocks away.