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Slain journalist’s mom: ‘Jim believed until the end that his country would come’

May 21, 2019 at 1:30 p.m.

U.S. government officials repeatedly told James Foley's relatives they could not raise ransom money to secure the journalist's release after he was kidnapped in Syria, Foley's mother said in a...

Navy official in Chicago to mark 9/11 anniversary

May 21, 2019 at 1:29 p.m.

Three-star Navy admiral to speak in Chicago on anniversary of 9/11Thirteen years have passed since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, but as the president's address Wednesday night made clear,...

Loyola Medical Center restricts visitors amid virus outbreak

May 21, 2019 at 1:27 p.m.

Loyola University Medical Center has imposed restrictions on visitors in response to the recent outbreak of a respiratory illness. The Maywood hospital says children younger than 18 and anyone with...

Emergency rooms in Chicago, Midwest see spike in children with respiratory virus

March 30, 2019 at 6:58 a.m.

Emergency rooms in Chicago and other Midwestern cities are seeing a jump in the number of children with respiratory infections, possibly the result of a rare virus that can cause...

Resident Neil Smith watches firefighters with his Yorkie, Tallulah, after a fire spread from a vacant single family home undergoing renovation to the roof of the adjacent apartment building where he lives.

Fire destroys home, displaces residents from neighboring apartment building

June 17, 2018 at 9:30 a.m.

Oak Park resident Bronwyn Soell spent Monday afternoon washing her family's clothes, pillows and other belongings after they and at least 30 other people were displaced by an extra-alarm fire...

Officials investigate extra-alarm fire that destroyed Oak Park home

June 17, 2018 at 9:59 a.m.

No one was injured but damage was extensive when an extra-alarm fire spread from a house to an apartment building Wednesday morning in Oak Park, authorities said.The fire, which gutted...

Police: Missing man last seen in Bronzeville neighborhood

May 21, 2019 at 1:20 p.m.

Police are asking for help as they search for a 67-year-old man last seen Tuesday in the Bronzeville neighborhood. James "Joe" Mitchell is described as black, 5'7'', 128 lbs., with...

Cops: Man batters woman and child, throws toddler from vehicle

May 21, 2019 at 1:18 p.m.

A 46-year-old man is in custody after beating a woman, hitting her young son when he tried to intervene and throwing an 18-month-old girl out a vehicle window early this...

Residents talk at the 8000 block of South Ellis Avenue, one block from a police-involved shooting on Sunday evening.

City’s weekend toll climbs as over a dozen shot late Sunday

May 21, 2019 at 1:12 p.m.

At least 21 people were shot in Chicago in a 12-hour span starting early Sunday afternoon, according to authorities. Gunfire broke out on the North, South and West sides in...

Police investigate the scene where four people were shot outside of a Pizza Hut in the Grand Crossing neighborhood.

4 shot outside Pizza Hut: ‘I heard a bunch of gunshots, people screaming’

May 21, 2019 at 1:14 p.m.

Serenity Marie's bus was at a stoplight on Stony Island when she heard a quick burst of gunfire just outside her window. "I saw cars heading into the parking lot...

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