Christmas tree fire guts Lisle home, sends family to hospital
A Lisle family is newly homeless less than 10 days before Christmas after a fire that started in their fresh-cut Christmas tree Saturday gutted their house. A woman and her...
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Top cop: U.N. has ‘no jurisdiction’ in Chicago
A day after Cook County Commissioner Richard Boykin called for United Nations intervention to stop what he called a “quiet genocide” in Chicago’s black community, the city’s top cop laughed...
Chicago cop gets 5 years in prison for tipping off a friend about drug arrest
A former veteran Chicago police officer was sentenced to five years in prison Wednesday for leaking details of an undercover narcotics investigation to a friend from high school who was...
Parkinson’s disease progression can be slowed with vigorous exercise, study shows
His friends noticed the tremor before he did. It started in his left hand, Geoffrey Rogers said, but before long the trembling affected his right too. The cause, doctors found,...
2 dead following high-speed Lamborghini crash on I-57 in Matteson
Two men were killed Friday night when the Lamborghini they were in left the roadway on Interstate 57 and rolled over, hitting trees, state police said. Both the driver and...
Chicago marks 76th anniversary of Pearl Harbor attack
Nearly eight decades after Japanese forces attacked the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, memories of the shocking event and the nation’s participation in World War II still echo in...
Chicago records lowest number of new HIV diagnoses in 26 years, officials say
Chicago recorded the lowest number of new HIV diagnoses in 26 years in 2016, public health officials say. In 2001, the city reported 1,850 HIV diagnoses, the highest number of...
Breast cancer once killed far more black women than white women in Chicago. Here’s how that changed.
Every June, without fail, Diane Walker got a mammogram. Cancer ran in her family, she said. Even her mother had it. Determined not to be next, she went year after...
2 charged in carjacking held without bail
Two Chicago men charged with aggravated vehicular hijacking were ordered held without bail Wednesday afternoon. Davontae Jones, 18, and Jason Dortch, 19, both of the 2700 block of West Polk...
Gunman in mask fatally shoots 2 with rifle in Brighton Park
Two men were killed in a rifle shooting in the Brighton Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side while five other people were wounded in city gunfire between Saturday afternoon and...