The app sets off a loud alert to scare off a would-be attacker and was developed by a Chicago man after a family member was the target of an attempted abduction.
Fourteen Hyde Park Career Academy students attended Father's Day luncheon on Friday, where President Obama went table to table to meet with the students.
Memorial Day is a holiday for Chicago Public Schools, but many students and their families gathered for a picnic at Millennium Park to protest school closings.
A mentoring program for high school students is the latest casualty of the budget crisis in Illinois. The Leaders Program is being eliminated because of cuts to child care assistance.
Prom is a special night for all high school seniors. But it was extra special for Justin Bykowski, a teenager with Down Syndrome, in suburban Zion this past weekend.
A 15-year-old boy was found dead near 50th and Evans on Chicago's South Side Monday night, less than four blocks from President Obama's home in the Kenwood community.
A 15-year-old boy was found dead near 50th and Evans on Chicago's South Side Monday night, less than four blocks from President Obama's home in the Kenwood community.
A rainstorm pummeling the Chicago area ripped open a sinkhole that swallowed three cars on the South Side, injuring one driver badly enough that he had to be hospitalized.
College-bound students at an inner city high school on the South Side will embark on an eight-city tour this weekend to visit a number of cities and colleges.
The family of an American diplomat who was among those killed in a terrorist attack in southern Afghanistan has taken solace in knowing she died doing what she loved.
The long wait is over for a northwest Indiana family as 9-year-old Blake Laudenber has been waiting eight years for a kidney and a perfect match was found Thursday, on National Kidney Day.
An Iraq war veteran says he keeps getting rejected for full-time jobs despite being highly trained and educated as a nurse through the help of the Veterans Administration.
Federal drug agents shut down and served search warrants on a medical clinic in the Uptown neighborhood suspected of being a hub for the illegal distribution of prescription drugs.