The fourth annual festival packed 120-plus vendors and a camel named Cyrus into the Kane County Fairgrounds.

A Gary traffic stop spiraled into a wrong-way chase on I-80, ending with one man diving out a car window.

A dozen fire departments swarmed a Griffith Road blaze early Sunday as one resident died and another jumped to escape the flames.

The pre-dawn crash left the man trapped inside his truck; no one else was hurt, Lisle police say.

Chicago starts Monday warm and humid, but the bigger weather story is a stormy stretch arriving Tuesday and Wednesday.

A fatal shooting near the pope's boyhood block in Dolton remains under investigation, with the victim's identity still unreleased.

A 24-year-old flagged down officers early Sunday after being shot multiple times near LeClaire Avenue.

Chicago Fire crews rushed four gunshot victims from the same North Austin block that saw a shooting in March.

Todd Sabatini and 22-month-old Theo were last seen walking away from a Greenfield, Wisconsin police station Saturday afternoon.

A four-unit building at 4650 N. Magnolia replaced an 1890 frame home torn down in April. No condos are listed for sale yet.

A woman died from a neck stab wound at a Lawrence Avenue-area home; police have made no arrests.

A $450,000 permit will replace a long-overgrown lot on South Vernon Avenue with a slab-built three-flat two blocks from the Green Line.

A 1-year-old boy and a 29-year-old man are in critical condition after a South Shore house fire Saturday evening.