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Torres started as a teacher but quickly moved to school administration.

Chicago officers located a vehicle that was carjacked last month and followed it until they were able to make an arrest in Westmont, accordi...

A spokesman for the Chicago Police Department said he could not comment on any of the allegations because the matter is under investigation.

Aurora Police Chief Kristen Ziman announced Monday she will be retiring from the police agency she has been a member of since she was 17 yea...

Seven young fathers were honored in a ceremony on June 10, 2021, after completing the Dovetail Project's 12-week parenting program.

Police said they do not know what caused a large fight at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee Sunday, but that the disturbance appeared to an...

A state Department of Natural Resources release identified the victim as Donald Turner.

A Miami man charged in a Gary bank security guard’s shooting death made his first court appearance Monday.

In a negotiated plea with Lake County prosecutors, Isaiah Cole, 20, pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and a drug charge. In return...

Mayor Lori Lightfoot says email ripping aide over lack of ‘office time’ was ‘born out of frustration,’ draws comparisons to scene in ‘The Sh...

Police identified the victim as John Welbourn, 63.

The man injured in a road rage incident last week on Route 31 in West Dundee has died, police said.

A dog died last week after being left in a transport vehicle under the care of K9 University Chicago, an East Garfield Park dog day care and...

A hundred T-shirts on display at an Auburn-Gresham high school show that many of Chicago's kids refuse to accept violence as normal. Because...

An evacuation was ordered for northern Illinois near Rockford as a chemical fire at Chemtool Inc., in Rockton, grew to an extra-alarm fire.

Mayor Lightfoot will join Chicago Public Schools CEO Dr. Jackson to provide an update on CPS. Watch live here.

An evacuation order was in place Monday in a northern Illinois near Rockford because of a chemical fire large enough to be picked up by weat...

Torres replaces Janice Jackson, who is leaving CPS at the end of the month.

A North Chicago man was found shot to death behind the steering wheel of a car that had crashed into a building, Waukegan police said Monday...

A 16-year-old girl and a 46-year-old man were shot and wounded Sunday night in the Lawndale neighborhood, Chicago Police said.

Chicago on Monday was to announce a lineup of cultural events for the summer, including Taste of Chicago To-Go, as part of city entertainmen...

Security guard, 23, arrested after allegedly shooting a man in the Gold Coast late Sunday, Chicago police said.

The suspect was pulled from his car by protesters after the Sunday night crash and is now in custody and being treated for injuries at a hos...

Chicago police said seven people were rescued from the lake early Monday following two separate calls for a water rescue about 40 minutes ap...

How a North Side filmmaker and South Side girl acquitted of murder met and collaborated on a film about her life.