Police search for man who robbed Oswego bank
Police are searching for a man who robbed a bank in Oswego on Wednesday.
View ArticleBoy, 16, faces charges for carjacking vehicle used in Bridgeport homicide, is...
A 16-year-old boy was arrested Monday night for stealing a vehicle that was used in a fatal carjacking in Bridgeport earlier that day, Chicago police said Saturday.
View ArticleHere’s what you need to know about COVID-19 vaccines
A federal advisory panel put people 75 and older and essential workers like firefighters, teachers and grocery store workers next in line for COVID-19 shots as a second vaccine began rolling out to...
View ArticleCoronavirus in Illinois updates: Here’s what happened Dec. 24 with COVID-19...
Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus in the Chicago area and the rest of Illinois.
View ArticleRobber shot, critically injured by concealed carry license holder in Humboldt...
As a male pulled out a handgun and tried to rob a Humboldt Park business Saturday evening, a 29-year-old man with a concealed carry license pulled out his own gun and fired shots at the robber,...
View ArticleBoy who police say was abducted near Mundelein found safe in Indiana; his...
An 8-year-old boy who Lake County, Ill., authorities said was abducted Christmas Day by his mother, who does not have parental custody rights, has been found safe in Indiana, authorities said.
View ArticlePolice: 3 dead, 3 injured in shooting at Rockford bowling alley; ‘person of...
Police are reporting that three people are dead and three are injured at a bowling alley in the Rockford area, according to the Associated Press. A “person of interest” is in custody, police say.
View ArticleObama Presidential Center supporters ‘see a light at the end of the tunnel,’...
2020 proved to be a fruitful year for the proposed Obama Presidential Center’s timeline. In December, two of the federal reviews concluded, and a lawsuit was quashed earlier this summer. Supporters of...
View ArticleRockford bowling alley shooting
A gunman opened fire inside an Illinois bowling alley on Dec. 26, 2020, killing three people and injuring three others, police said.
View ArticleWatch live: Rockford police give update on bowling alley shooting
Rockford police are giving an update on Saturday night’s shooting at a bowling alley that killed three people.
View ArticleMen killed in two of four Elgin house fires on Christmas Eve/Day; man shot on...
Two men died as a result of fatal town house fires occurring on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, two of four blazes firefighters that took place in Elgin over those two days, according to fire...
View ArticlePerson fatally shot near Midway Airport
A person was fatally shot in the chest near the corner of Archer and Lawler avenues Dec. 27, 2020, in Chicago.
View ArticleRed Cross, fellow residents step up to help 56 displaced by Christmas Day...
The Christmas day fire was reported at 2:50 a.m. at 9954 S. 84th Terrace, Palos Hills, in a 40-unit building. There were no injuries, but 56 residents were displaced.
View ArticleChicago police investigating triple shooting and unrelated fatal shooting...
Chicago police were investigating two unrelated homicides Sunday and no arrests had been made in either case.
View ArticleRockford shooting: Military member from Florida charged in bowling alley...
Duke Webb, a 37-year-old military member from Florida, was charged with three counts of murder in the shootings, Rockford prosecutors said Sunday.
View ArticlePolice raid protest at Chicago police headquarters
More than 200 people, many of them politicians, clergy members, activists and union members gathered outside of Chicago Public Safety headquarters in Bronzeville on Sunday to protest Chicago police...
View ArticleAnjanette Young agrees to meeting with Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, also...
Social worker Anjanette Young has agreed to meet privately with Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot following public uproar over a mistaken police raid on her home but has requested that they also have a...
View ArticleBlack politicians, activists protest Anjanette Young raid, demand policy to...
Lt. Gov. Julianna Stratton: 'We cannot move forward as a society if we do not firmly commit to protecting Black women and girls.'
View ArticlePot legalization was to bring expungements to many with records in Illinois....
Almost one year after recreational marijuana legalization took effect, few past criminal cases that qualify for expungement have been cleared. But officials say more expungements are on the way.
View ArticleColumn: The year of the virus, the year of the mask. Be gone, 2020, that’s...
Reflections on the year that has passed.
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