Liam Ford

Child-welfare authorities are investigating the death of a 5-month-old girl who drowned while in the care of a babysitter in Cicero. Alexendria E. Martinez was pronounced dead at 3:07 p.m....

Prosecutors and investigators say they have broken up a drug-distribution ring that bought heroin and other drugs from a supplier in the Chicago area and resold it in northwest Indiana....

A lawsuit claims malfunctioning windshield wipers contributed to the crash of a Chicago-bound Megabus along Interstate 65 earlier this week. The lawsuit was filed Wednesday by four Chicagoans who were...

At least five people have been hurt in shootings across the city since early Wednesday afternoon, police said. In the most recent attack, two men were shot in North Lawndale...

A 1-year-old child and an 18-year-old man were taken to a hospital after they were among three people rescued from an extra-alarm fire in the Back of the Yards neighborhood...

A woman was killed after being struck by a Metra Rock Island District train Wednesday evening in Tinley Park, officials said. The pedestrian was hit somewhere north of 183rd Street...

A bizarre missing persons case has turned into an even stranger murder mystery. Last month, police broke into the home of a dying Indiana woman, Teresa Jarding, and discovered that...

A man who fell asleep at the wheel while waiting for a train to pass in Riverside tried to escape police by driving away at 96 mph, then parking near...