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,...
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68 police aides face loss of jobs
Chicago officials told 68 civilian police employees Friday that their jobs would be eliminated but that they have the option of taking the jobs of lower-level workers for less pay....
On streets, drug trade the only game in town
Late in the morning, money is briskly changing hands in the Dearborn Homes, a dreary complex of faded brick buildings scattered along three blocks of South State Street. In a...
Cline blasts governor on guns
The arrest of a reputed gang member accused of running guns from Kentucky to Chicago illustrates the need to defeat looser gun laws backed by the governor, Police Supt. Philip...
Kidnap probe leads to human remains
Chicago detectives searching for the missing owner of a cellular-phone store are trying to determine whether human remains found this week are the dismembered pieces of his body, law enforcement...
Low bail by judge in gang case riles cops
In the eyes of police and prosecutors, Kenyatta White was the consummate example of a defendant who deserved to be held in jail on a high bail, or even no...
Gangs run gun pipeline from Delta to Chicago
Marlon Jude had come down from Chicago for his Aunt Mini's funeral when he met Charles Westbrooks at a family barbecue. On a Sunday afternoon in 2000, it was a...
Thriving area still harbors deadliest police beat of city
The streets surrounding the 3500 block of West Belden Avenue look safe enough. Families walk the streets, the restaurants and shops are busy, there aren't any boarded up houses, hardly...
CUBS LATE COLLAPSE FORCES GAME 7
Already burdened by the legacy of Cubs losses, fans now have to face the notion that it was one of their own, a fan surely as hungry for a win...
Blaze guts West Side site
The city's largest fire emergency this year devastated a historically significant warehouse in Garfield Park on Thursday, sending towering flames into the sky and a thick, black cloud of smoke...