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Autopsy: Death of infant last week due to child abuse

March 12, 2024 at 12:01 p.m.

An autopsy Friday determined that a child who died last week was the victim of child abuse. Ra'Niya White, a 4-month-old from the Grand Crossing neighborhood, was pronounced dead on...

Contractor fatally injured at Bedford Park freight yard

July 16, 2023 at 5:02 p.m.

A Roseland man was killed early Saturday morning when he was crushed between two metal chassis at the CSX railyard in south suburban Bedford Park, officials said. Officials said the...

The window of a building on the 400 block of East Ontario Street in Chicago is seen on July 7, 2023, in which the bodies of two deceased babies were found.

Woman suffered ’emergency medical situation’ before babies were discovered in Streeterville day care bathroom

July 7, 2023 at 5:29 p.m.

A Chicago day care employee on the Northwestern Memorial Hospital campus suffered an "emergency medical situation" Thursday evening, which led to the discovery of two infant girls in the day...

Evanston man killed business owner on roof of Little India restaurant: prosecutors

July 2, 2023 at 9:33 a.m.

A Cook County judge on Saturday denied bail to an Evanston man accused of fatally stabbing a business owner during what prosecutors described as a "crime spree" in a West...

Police investigate the scene on the Dan Ryan Expressway at 43rd Street where a car ended up following a hit-and-run outside Guaranteed Rate Field in Chicago on June 20, 2023.

Man without a driver’s license drove through crowd headed to Chicago White Sox game, prosecutors say

June 23, 2023 at 8:20 a.m.

Prosecutors on Thursday said that a 20-year-old man who was never issued a driver's license and was once accused of fleeing police at a traffic stop plowed through a crowd...

Baseball fans and first responders stand outside Guaranteed Rate Field on 35th Street after pedestrians were struck by a vehicle before a game on June 20, 2023.

Driver faces felonies after 4 pedestrians mowed down before White Sox game at Guaranteed Rate Field

June 22, 2023 at 3:06 p.m.

A New City man faces felony reckless driving charges after authorities said he plowed through four pedestrians headed to Tuesday night's White Sox game just outside Guaranteed Rate Field. Authorities...

The H.H. Holmes "murder castle" is seen here in March 1937. The building at 601-603 W. 63rd St. was sold in 1938 and razed to make way for an Englewood post office. The main entrance was at 603 E. 63rd St. and housed a sign company in 1937 where Holmes had his drugstore.

130 years later, was H.H. Holmes’ Englewood ‘Murder Castle’ the house of horror legends claim? It wasn’t even a hotel, experts say.

May 16, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

In the city's history, the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 is perhaps one of its grandest moments — Chicago's emergence on the world stage as a new metropolis rising from...

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