Chicago police are searching for a gunman who shot and killed a teenager Wednesday night. Eighteen-year-old Sergio Dukes was leaving a high school basketball game when he was killed.
Family and friends gathered Thursday morning at a church in the western suburbs to mourn the death of Sergeant Kevin Grieco. The Illinois National Guardsman was killed late last month in Afghanistan.
With history in the making, there excitement is sky-high across the nation and in Chicago. One Evanston precinct is reporting a record turnout of close to 85 percent.
Three people, including a toddler, were killed in northwest Indiana after a shocking chain of events. It started with a confrontation in an apartment in Portage and ended in a deadly crash in Porter County.
The woman accused in the hit-and-run killing of a bicyclist is back in jail. Barbara Lee was captured after a manhunt last week, but there's been a battle over the bond set in the case. Thursday, a judge increased Lee's bail to $500,000.
State Senator and Reverend James Meeks is still threatening to follow through with his threat to boycott the first day of classes for Chicago Public Schools.
A Vietnam veteran was gunned late Monday down near his home on the city's South Side. He was on his way home from his second job at a food store within blocks of where he lived.