Chicago Fire Department

Chicago firefighters rescued a possibly suicidal, but more likely confused, dog from a ledge in the city's Lincoln Park neighborhood Monday afternoon....

Commissioner Joseph Hoff -- presumably depicted as the younger brother in the film Backdraft who rode along with his firefighter-father -- is now at the center of a controversy involving fire department "ride alongs."

A woman returning to her North Side apartment was killed Sunday morning when she took the elevator to her floor -- not knowing that a fire was raging ...

Charges were filed Wednesday against the owner of a vacant building that collapsed one year ago and killed two Chicago firefighters. Chuck Dai, of ...

A Chicago firefighter and his son allegedly beat and robbed a man Saturday in the city's Bridgeport neighborhood. Eduardo Castro, 48, of the 1400 b...

A Chicago police officer is calling for the arrest of a Chicago fire captain who he claims assaulted him during a marine rescue earlier this month. ...

The city's next cost-cutting measure could be making roommates out of the Chicago Fire Department and the Chicago Police Department. The Chicago Su...

A Chicago man was charged Sunday with taking an ambulance for a late night joyride and causing more than $100,000 in damages -- all while inebriated. ...

A federal investigation into the blaze that killed two Chicago firefighters last December says lack of communication, lack of radios and lack of a vac...

A three-story brick home dating back to 1888 collapsed during an extra-alarm fire in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood Friday afternoon. The fire...

Chicago Fire Commissioner Robert Hoff moved Thursday to fire only four of the 54 firefighters accused of drastically padding their mileage expense rep...

UPDATE: Speaking at the Loyola University Hospital Friday, Chicago Fire Commissioner Robert Hoff reported the condition of the two severely injure...

Two residents of a burning Ravenswood apartment rescued a critically injured neighbor during an early Monday fire. Nick Salazar, one of the two ne...

Alderman John Arena (45th ward) may have been given the nickname "landslide" by Ald. Ed Burke (22nd), but on Thursday he may have earned himself a new...

Five years ago, Samantha Vasich decided that she wanted to be a firefighter. Sure, there aren't a lot of women in the Chicago Fire Department -- 11...

Harassment, taunting, isolation and racial discrimination. That's what some black men fear they'll face if they ever get a chance to become a Chica...

With just over two weeks until the election, Rahm Emanuel is fighting off criticism from Chicago's Fraternal Order of Police and other union groups ov...

Mayor Richard Daley knew fallen firefighter Corey Ankum well. "Corey was a true defender in every sense of the word," Daley said at the funeral for...

Last week, a burning building that had been vacant for years became engulfed in flames. Crews responded to the scene, and several firefighters entered...

Police are looking for a possibly shirtless and shoeless man who set his girlfriend's Christmas tree on fire Sunday night, injuring the couple's 1-yea...

CHICAGO — The burning building had been vacant for years, but the firefighters went in anyway – just in case squatters started the blaze a...

CHICAGO — Bond was set at $50,000 for a 27-year-old Chicago man accused of stealing an ambulance over the weekend while two paramedics treated s...

The popular downtown restaurant, Avec, reopened today after months of renovations--and an August tragedy. Chicago firefighter Christopher Wheatley w...

About 150 people were treated for heat-related illness at a Near West Side private bus stop this afternoon by the Chicago Fire Department, but no one ...

Nineteen CTA passengers were taken to area hospitals Sunday as a precaution after a subway fire. Burning railroad ties on the Red Line between the ...