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The director of license administration for the Chicago city clerk`s office was shot and fatally wounded on the far West Side Wednesday evening, only hours after he was indicted in...

The director of license administration for the Chicago city clerk`s office was shot and critically wounded on the Far West Side Wednesday evening, only hours after he was indicted in...

Sheriff`s Police Officer Michael Ridges, who was shot to death last week in Prospect Heights, may have been slain while trying to protect a man who had been receiving death...

Ben Wilson`s girlfriend fought back tears Tuesday as she testified that she watched two youths shoot and kill her 17-year-old boyfriend, one of the nation`s top high school basketball players....

In the Third World, disasters often strike the poor the hardest. But the earthquake that rocked the world`s second-largest city dealt its worst to the Mexican middle class. Amid the...

Teresa Morales, 31, a Mexican immigrant, left the telegraph office at 21st Street and Ashland Avenue in the Pilsen community Thursday afternoon. She walked quickly, tears streaming down her face....

Jeffrey Crawford died last Friday. Police and paramedics said he had been dead at least three hours before they were summoned. Instead of calling a doctor, relatives said, the 5-year-old`s...

A 4-year-old Northbrook boy was electrocuted after he bit into a live appliance cord while sitting on a wet rug in his home, the Cook County medical examiner`s office said...

The Democratic Party`s support of the nation`s welfare system is ''poverty maintenance'' that has kept blacks from striving to succeed, national civil rights leader Roy Innis said in Chicago Sunday....

The mother of a girl who allegedly was molested in a North Michigan Avenue hotel by a friend of the mother was charged Tuesday with endangering the life and health...