Prosecutors: Mentally ill man shoved stranger in front of oncoming Red Line train
An Englewood man shoved a stranger into the path of an oncoming CTA Red Line train — the second such incident to occur this year — but later confessed to...
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George Floyd fallout in Chicago: Downtown locked down, unrest spreads to South, West sides and some suburbs
As Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot requested the Illinois National Guard be brought in to prevent a second night of downtown violence and looting, the chaos spilled into some city neighborhoods...
More rain, more floods, more often. Why wet basements and swollen rivers are becoming the new spring reality for Illinois.
The record-setting spring rains that pummeled the Chicago region this May overwhelmed northern Illinois rivers, knocked out power to Willis Tower, filled Lake Michigan to the brim and forced thousands...
Uptown man accused of smothering wife who had bad trip on magic mushrooms
Attorneys for an Uptown neighborhood man accused of smothering his wife with a pillow argued the man was merely trying to restrain an emotionally disturbed woman in the throes of...
Charges filed against food delivery driver after attack outside Lakeview restaurant, apparently over social distancing
Angry after being told he'd have to wait outside a Lakeview restaurant while an order was being prepared, prosecutors said a food deliveryman who shouldn't have been driving, struck and...
‘Unreal’ rains flood homes, knock out power and put Chicago on the cusp of wettest May ever
Kelli Peterson, rain boots on, stepped cautiously onto the submerged footbridge in her yard, gripping the sides to steady herself against the pulsating current of Spring Creek. The creek, which...
$250K bail for man accused of stabbing bystander who defended woman
A 64-year-old Roseland man was ordered held on $250,000 bail Sunday after he was accused of stabbing a younger man who tried to defend a woman being threatened by the...
Charges pending after Lakeview restaurant worker struck by deliveryman during quarrel over social distancing
Criminal charges were pending Sunday against a food delivery driver who was supposedly recorded driving his Toyota Prius into a worker during a quarrel outside a Lakeview restaurant, authorities said....
Prosecutors: Altgeld Gardens gang did block-by-block sweep for rivals, killed grandmother arriving home instead
On an unseasonably icy Wednesday night early last November, prosecutors said an armed seven-man team tied to an Altgeld Gardens street gang crisscrossed neighborhood streets in what resembled a synchronized...
3 Chicago firefighters hurt in Jackson Park Highlands when chunk of plaster ceiling crashes down on their heads
It's a good thing they were wearing helmets. Chicago firefighters were injured Sunday morning when a chunk from a classic plaster ceiling inside a Jackson Park Highlands apartment building crashed...