Katherine Rosenberg-Douglas

An evidence technician works the scene where a 16-year-old girl and 17-year-old boy were shot on the 4400 block of North Clarendon Avenue in the Uptown neighborhood during the Fourth of July holiday weekend Monday July 5, 2021 in Chicago. (Armando L. Sanchez/baiduhai)

6 teenagers shot in separate Chicago attacks overnight, 17-year-old boy in critical condition

July 6, 2021 at 2:40 p.m.

Just as the sun was setting in Chicago Monday night, two teenagers, 16 and 17, were walking in Uptown, blocks from Montrose Beach on the North Side, when they were...

3 people shot, man with concealed carry license steps in, shoots gunman, Chicago police say

July 5, 2021 at 3:17 p.m.

The gunman who shot three people standing in a South Austin alley on the Fourth of July may have gotten away with the brazen attack that left a woman dead...

Workers from a body removal service transport a 48-year-old man was who fatally shot inside a home on the 8600 block of South Aberdeen Street, July 5, 2021, in Chicago.

Girl, 6, shot early Monday in same Chicago neighborhood as 5-year-old girl about 8 hours earlier

July 5, 2021 at 2:36 p.m.

A 6-year-old girl and her mother were wounded early Monday in a drive-by shooting in West Pullman, the same neighborhood where a 5-year-old girl had been shot about eight hours...

State police investigate after a car accident closes the southbound Dan Ryan Expressway at 95th Street on July 4, 2021.

1 dead in crash on Dan Ryan Expressway at 95th Street, Illinois State Police investigating

July 4, 2021 at 1:47 p.m.

One person was killed and another person was injured in a hit-and-run crash on the Dan Ryan Expressway near 95th Street in Chicago early Sunday, according to Illinois State Police....

Chicago police process a crime scene on 79th Street between Cottage Grove and Maryland avenues in Chicago where a young girl was shot in the head and a man was wounded on July 1, 2021. The rear window of a vehicle on the block was shattered.

Two girls, 8 and 9, and two teens among 9 shot, 1 fatally, in three Chicago shootings

July 1, 2021 at 9:22 p.m.

Two young girls, ages 8 and 9, were shot Thursday in separate incidents, police said. The 9-year-old was seated in the back seat of a vehicle at the intersection of...

Fire and police officials stage near a burned building in the 900 block of East Benton Street on June 30, 2021, in Morris. The building caught fire on Tuesday and contains an estimated 100 tons of lithium batteries, according to city officials. Area residents have been evacuated.

Illinois EPA urges legal action against battery company over Morris fire

July 1, 2021 at 6:57 p.m.

The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency is recommending the state attorney general's office pursue legal action against Superior Battery, the unlicensed business that was storing as many as 200,000 pounds of...

Fire and police officials stage near a burning building in the 900 block of East Benton Street on June 30, 2021, in Morris. The building caught fire the previous day and contains an estimated 100 tons of lithium batteries, according to city officials. Area residents have been evacuated.

Morris mayor says officials were unaware battery business was operating in building that’s still on fire. Thousands remain evacuated.

June 30, 2021 at 10:34 p.m.

As a fire at a building housing tons of lithium batteries continued to burn Wednesday in Morris — forcing the evacuation of about 3,000 people from their homes — Mayor...

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