Mario Santoyo admitted holding a knife to his throat before a nine-hour standoff froze downtown Chicago's federal courthouse.

The Chicago-area firm now owns 100 percent of a 39-building industrial portfolio stretching from Racine to Alsip.

GTCR and Elliott will pay $7.75 a share, a 44% premium, for the Chicago claims-tech giant behind $100 billion in yearly transactions.

Fire crews responded Thursday to the Cook County Building at 118 North Clark, next to City Hall, after a suspicious envelope prompted the call.

The Skokie museum's new core galleries add stories of non-Jewish victims and Chicagoan Leo Edelman, plus a Hollywood blacklist exhibit this winter.

An asphalt lot at Byron and Western is making way for a five-story building with eight homes and ground-floor retail.

Guadalupe Almendarez died hours after a three-vehicle pileup near Harrison Park. No one else was hurt.

Five of 10 cars turned onto their sides near 75th and Central Park early Thursday; CSX says no crossings were blocked and no injuries occurred.

A 32-year-old man was hospitalized in serious condition after fleeing a Wednesday shooting on East 82nd Street.

A 1998 Toyota Avalon struck the man near Hintz and Wheeling roads early Wednesday. His identity hasn't been released.

A woman was taken to Lutheran Hospital after being struck near River Grove; her condition remains unknown.

Dereon Sims, 18, vanished over a week ago; his family fears for his health.

Police released images of the woman accused of hitting an elderly rider near Michigan and Washington. Tips can be submitted anonymously.