Chicago Crime

Police believe a 30-year-old Chicago woman was intoxicated when she allegedly stole an ambulance from a South Side hospital, then crashed it into two ...

In Illinois restitution isn't assured unless a freed prisoner first proves his innocence. That's right. Even if the charges have been dropped, he must convince the county's presiding judge that he didn't do the crime.

Making our neighborhoods safe won't be easy. We need to provide the young with the best, not the worst, educational opportunities. We need the police to make protecting the citizens of those streets a greater priority.

While disagreements between roommates are often par for the course, police say a South Side Chicago man snapped and killed both of his housemates. ...

A 54-year-old Woodstock, Ill. man was arrested after a police raid on his property turned up drugs, weapons and 22 fighting roosters. Anthony Jayne...

Until creative ideas are revisited to target the people in America most subject to chronic unemployment, policing efforts alone are unlikely to do much besides temporarily stop the bleeding.

A Chicago alderman was assaulted by a constituent while cleaning up a city street. Ald. James Cappleman (46th), whose ward largely consists of the ...

Seven men have been arrested in connection with a violent attack in a southwest suburban Chicago restaurant that reportedly targeted a group of white ...

A house with strong ties to one of Chicago's darkest hours is getting a facelift. The Franks Residence at 5052 S. Ellis St., adjacent to the Obama ...

At least seven people -- including two youths, aged 12 and 14 -- were fatally shot over the weekend in Chicago while the NATO summit and the protests ...

Updated story Ten people were hurt Saturday when a group of about 18 people wearing black hoodies and face-concealing bandanas entered a southwest ...

The FBI declared the search for a man wanted in the stabbing death of his new wife an "international manhunt" Thursday night after cell phone records ...

Police have released photos of two suspects in the CTA Red Line robbery where four members of a volunteer community patrol group were stabbed. Four...

CHICAGO — The nationwide hunt for a man accused of killing his new bride intensified Thursday, as the FBI issued an unlawful flight warrant for ...

Four members of the Guardian Angels, a red beret-clad volunteer community patrol group, were stabbed Tuesday evening while they were attempting to thw...

Facing criticism concerning Chicago's soaring homicide rate thus far this year, Rahm Emanuel on Tuesday announced a new "wraparound" crime-fighting st...

For more than 50 Chicago women who have lost children to violence rallied against the city's high crime rate in honor of Mother's Day Sunday. The d...

CHICAGO — Jurors finished a second day of deliberations Thursday without a verdict in the trial of the man charged with murdering Oscar winner J...

It is a saga of murder and injustice that spans three decades, and even now a surprising new chapter is being written.

Nearly two months after an unarmed Chicago woman was gunned down by an off-duty Chicago police officer, the 22-year-old's family is still searching fo...

A man who robbed a Chicago bank early Monday apparently had second thoughts about walking away with a bag of cash -- and left it behind before fleeing...

CHICAGO -- A man who was reportedly interrupted by a Chicago musician while brutally beating his wife was found not guilty last week in the attack tha...

An attempted robbery of a jewelry store in Chicago's West Rogers Park neighborhood was thwarted Monday when the shop's owner shot the alleged culprit ...

The northern Illinois historic hotel that previously served as a hideout for notorious mobster Al Capone is now up for auction on eBay. The Mineola...

A former physics teacher in suburban Chicago was sentenced Tuesday to six years in prison after pleading guilty to sexual assaulting an underage stude...