Chicago man who stormed Pelosi’s office on Jan. 6 found guilty as new details emerge
One of the first Chicagoans charged in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot was found guilty Friday on all six counts he faced related to the mob breach. Kevin Lyons, 40,...
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Chicago police ‘like’ of anti-transgender post sparks investigation
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot and interim police Superintendent Eric Carter announced an internal investigation Friday into the unauthorized "like" by the Chicago Police Department's Twitter account of an anti-transgender tweet....
Two teens shot near Illinois Institute of Technology campus: Chicago police
Two teens were shot near the Illinois Institute of Technology's campus in the Douglas neighborhood Thursday afternoon, Chicago police said. The boys, 16 and 17, had been walking down the...
‘They are family’: Chicago firefighters cope with unprecedented pair of deaths
For many in the Chicago Fire Department, the two firefighters who perished in separate back-to-back blazes this week weren't just colleagues. Lt. Jan Tchoryk, 55, who died Wednesday in a...
New details released in separate fatal fire investigations that killed 2 Chicago firefighters a day apart
The cause of a fatal fire in a Gold Coast high-rise apartment building Wednesday that left one Chicago firefighter dead was announced Thursday morning, and the cause of death for...
FBI: Same robber hit Bucktown, Irving Park neighborhood banks Wednesday
The same man was being sought in two bank robberies Wednesday afternoon in Chicago, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigations. The man attempted a robbery at a PNC bank...
‘It just doesn’t happen. But today, it did’: Veteran fire lieutenant second to die in as many days following extra-alarm blaze at Gold Coast high-rise
Jan Tchoryk was a veteran firefighter, a lieutenant, facing what many in his profession in Chicago have battled before: a stubborn fire in a high-rise on the city's lakefront. But...
Armed woman at Chicago Trump Tower in custody, charges pending: Police
Chicago police SWAT officers responded to Trump Tower Wednesday afternoon after a woman had a rifle at the building, police said. Police took the woman into custody later in the...
As city’s most active voting precinct, Cook County inmates vote with help from jail and advocates
Chicago's most active voting precinct has an unlikely cornerstone. A big chunk of its voters don't cast ballots at an elementary school gym or a library — they vote from...
Officials confirm tornado hit Belvidere just before deadly roof collapse at metal concert
A tornado on a 28-mile rampage with wind gusts from 90-100 miles per hour tore through Belvidere Friday night, officials confirmed Saturday evening. The EF-1 twister left 50-year-old Frederick Forest...