The land is owned by ComEd and leased by the Village of Crestwood, but for over 20 years, it's only ever been the Crestwood Soccer Club that's used the park.
Just two days before his sentencing, Jesse Jackson Jr.'s attorneys have filed a notice with the Bureau of Prisons on where the former congressman wants to serve his time.
The search is on for a gunman who sprayed a car with bullets hitting a 4-year-old girl along with her brother and her brother's friend around 10:30 Sunday night in the 4200 block of North Central Avenue in the Portage Park neighborhood.
A field of over 200 veterans and active military, all of them wounded in service, will prove over the next three days that disability is a state of mind.
Sweeping criminal justice reforms have been unveiled by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, who wants to cut back long prison sentences given for some drug-related crimes.
The majority of the nearly 50 Chicago elementary schools slated for closure will likely proceed after a federal judge denied class-action status to the two main civil lawsuits at the center of a dispute pitting parents and education officials.
The Muscular Dystrophy Association's Goodwill ambassador visited with Chicago fire fighters to thank them for their efforts in raising money and awareness for the association.
Shackled and locked in a coffin thrown from the plane, skydiver Anthony Martin freed himself and parachuted into a field in Serena, Ill., which is about 60 miles southwest of Chicago.
Both were charged with first-degree murder in connection with the drive-by shooting death of Tyrone Hart, 18, in the South Chicago neighborhood last month.
The group marched seven miles from Our Lady of Guadalupe Mission to Northwestern Memorial Hospital while carrying caskets representing undocumented immigrants who have died because they were denied care by hospitals.
A double murder early Saturday morning has claimed the life of a man and a young woman after neighbors say they heard shots around 3 a.m. in south suburban Calumet Park.
A double murder early Saturday morning has claimed the life of a man and a young woman after neighbors say they heard shots around 3 a.m. in south suburban Calumet Park.