A woman was shot during an attempted carjacking in Lawndale, with few details released so far.

Kankakee’s Gift of God shelter won a 7-0 planning vote for 12 transitional-housing beds. Funding and staffing could determine whether the program ever opens.

A billing glitch sent old unpaid-toll warnings to about 100,000 Illinois Tollway customers. Some notices involve trips from nearly a year ago.

Police and forest preserve officers launched a search near Lake Minear after an Evanston man went missing.

A North Lawndale youth boxing nonprofit has nearly tripled its daily capacity with a new Lawndale Plaza facility.

Randy Travis and his wife flew to the Chicago area to fulfill a cancer patient’s wish at City of Hope.

A Chicago woman pleaded guilty in the sexual assault of a Streator teenager and could receive up to 30 years in prison.

Two men were shot in West Garfield Park Friday afternoon, and one remains in critical condition after four attackers opened fire from a white sedan.

Solar-powered workstations and a public EV charger are bringing clean-energy access to Chicago’s South Side, with ComEd targeting neighborhoods left out of the private charging boom.

WGN apologized after airing a doctored image of 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan as Mitch McConnell during a crash update.

A 27-year-old man was killed and a 56-year-old woman wounded in a North Lawndale drive-by shooting Friday afternoon.

A Chicago man wanted in Ohio on charges involving minors was arrested in Rosemont after surveillance by Cook County investigators and federal marshals.

A wrong-way driver triggered a five-vehicle crash on Chicago’s Dan Ryan, killing one person and critically injuring two others.