The Cook County Sheriff's office continued its recent expansion of crime-fighting duties in the suburbs when it agreed Monday to take over the midnight shift for the Dixmoor Police Department.
Tourists are everywhere on a summer day in Chicago. Guardian Angels are passing out fliers warning people about a rash of crime - calling the area not Mag Mile but ''Muggers Mile.''
Family members talked Sunday night about a 100-year-old Wilmette librarian who was killed in a condo fire and how the victim motivated those around her.
ABC7 Chicago learned Wednesday that one person was able to escape the unincorportated Downers Grove home where four people died in an apparent murder-suicide.
ABC7 Chicago learned Wednesday that one person was able to escape the unincorportated Downers Grove home where four people died in an apparent murder-suicide the day before.
Janusz Kamienski, of Oklahoma, was struck and killed by a taxicab near Midway International Airport on Chicago's Southwest Side early Tuesday morning, police said.
Parades stepped off across the Chicago area despite gloomy weather. Senator Mark Kirk attended one of the state's biggest celebrations in Arlington Heights.
Angelina Jolie hopes her choice to have a double mastectomy encourages other women to be proactive about their health, but the chief of plastic surgery at the University of Chicago Medicine says potential patients need to seriously think about the surgery.
A relative of a long-time Chicago activist is among the latest victims of gun violence in the city. The great nephew of anti-gang activist Hal Baskin was shot while visiting family members for Mother's Day.
Flooding remains a big problem across the Chicago area after Thursday's deluge. Some residents of west suburban Forest View became trapped in their homes and had to be rescued by boat.
CTA trains were running over the Wells Street Bridge during Monday morning's rush hour after construction on the bridge affected the Brown and Purple Line routes for nine days.
An autopsy on the body of a Chicago lottery winner poisoned with cyanide yielded no significant new clues, the medical examiner said at Friday morning news conference.