Bank fire tied to bad wiring
Faulty wiring accidentally started the LaSalle Bank building fire, causing a blaze that consumed the 29th floor of the historic skyscraper and imperiled the lives of hundreds of people working...
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City murder toll lowest in decades
This year, for the first time in almost four decades, there will be fewer than 500 murders in Chicago, a city that has long struggled to shed its reputation for...
Loop high-rise fire injures 25
A fierce and stubborn blaze on the 29th floor of the LaSalle National Bank building sent dozens of panicked employees rushing through thick gray smoke and into stairwells Monday night,...
Program linked to drop in violence loses funds
Congress has dropped funding for state and local agencies involved in a program that has been critical to Chicago's recent success in curbing violent crime. Project Safe Neighborhoods, a cooperative...
Law of the streets is a death sentence
Weary-eyed, Laura and Willie Dent approached their 15-year-old grandson's coffin, their grief worn raw by the senseless chain of events that led to his death. The grandfather let out a...
As weather heats up, so do murders
Clyde Cannamore left his powder-blue house in the West Englewood neighborhood, walked into the hot, sticky Saturday night air and headed toward his favorite corner lounge. Neighbors crowded the street...
Crackdown on target
More than 50 blue-and-white squad cars roared east on Pershing Road, a small army heading to take control of two neighborhoods on a Chicago summer night. In Englewood and Washington...
Boy shot after rally against violence
On a day when police announced a major drug bust in the Englewood neighborhood and community members marched for reduced violence, a 13-year-old was critically shot Wednesday in the area,...
Legal activist dies in police custody
A 55-year-old Chicago woman who took on police by founding the organization Families of the Wrongfully Convicted was found dead early Wednesday in a police holding cell after being arrested...
Pedestrian fatally shot near Wrigley
A traffic altercation turned deadly Thursday when a pedestrian was fatally shot while quarreling with a motorist at an intersection outside Wrigley Field about two hours after a Cubs game,...