Dan P. Blake

Chicago Police Detective Joseph Airhart Jr., who was gravely wounded seven years ago as he tried to arrest a bank robbery suspect, died Tuesday, officials said. Airhart was a 19-year...

The head of the Forest View Police Department said today that the man shot while swinging a crutch at an officer this week was able-bodied and picked up the crutch...

A Forest View police officer shot and wounded a man threatening him with a crutch outside a sports bar early Thursday near the west suburb, officials said. The incident happened...

Chicago Public Schools teacher Erika Prince had been in-line skating with her two children and a niece -- enjoying one of the warmest days of the year -- before she...

A veteran CTA train motorman apparently disobeyed a red "stop" signal and overruled equipment that triggered the emergency brakes, resulting in a derailment Wednesday high above the ground, according to...

She talked him into taking her to McDonald's. On a warm spring evening, Joseph Richardson, a 39-year-old choir director, walked his 4-year-old daughter, Kaniyah, around the corner and down the...

The fatal shooting of a Loyola University Chicago journalism student as she drove her car on Chicago's South Side Sunday night may be connected to another shooting the same evening...

Gun violence that swept through swaths of Chicago over the weekend pressed into midweek Wednesday when five people were found slain in a South Side home. The afternoon crackle of...

Another punch from storms that already have brought reports of tornadoes touching down in Iowa was projected to hit the Chicago area overnight and early Friday, spurring fears along the...

One man was shot to death and another man, reportedly his brother, was wounded near a South Holland elementary school Thursday afternoon, but school officials said children were never in...