Nearly $160,000 raised for victim of Facebook Live attack
Nearly $160,000 has been donated to the family of a mentally disabled teenager who was shown bound and tortured in a Facebook Live video last week.Other people across the country...
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Bank robbed on North Side
A TCF Bank was robbed Monday morning in the city's Andersonville neighborhood, FBI officials said. The branch, located inside a Jewel-Osco, 5516 N. Clark St., was robbed about 10:15 a.m.,...
CTA to get $1.1 billion federal grant to upgrade Red Line
The Chicago Transit Authority has secured nearly $1.1 billion in federal grant money for major upgrades to North Side CTA tracks to reduce delays and overcrowding, a CTA spokesman said...
3 residents, 3 firefighters injured in West Garfield Park fire
Three residents and three firefighters suffered minor injuries Sunday morning in a two-alarm fire in the West Garfield Park neighborhood. The fire was reported shortly after 7 a.m. in the...
Police consider hate crime charges in West Side attack broadcast on Facebook Live
Editor's note: Four people who allegedly kidnapped and abused a mentally disabled man and streamed the attack on Facebook Live were charged on Jan. 5, 2016, with a hate crime...
YMCA agrees to administer medicine to diabetics in settlement of complaint
The YMCA of Metro Chicago has agreed to train its employees to administer the emergency medicine glucagon to diabetics who request it as part of a settlement to a discrimination...
Chicago cop who shot unarmed man is stripped of police powers
A Chicago police officer who fatally shot an unarmed man on the Northwest Side on Monday has been stripped of his police powers by Superintendent Eddie Johnson, the department said...
Chicago, public housing agencies to implement federal smoking ban
Karen Johnson dreads the idea of standing in the snow for a drag of her cigarette. She smokes from the comfort of her Dearborn Homes apartment, and has done so...
60 Cook County deputies under investigation for possibly lying about hours worked
Sixty Cook County sheriff's deputies are being investigated for allegedly lying about the number of hours they worked, a sheriff's official said Wednesday. The investigation began "several months ago" and...
‘I can’t believe I’m sitting here looking at a dead body’
A man was killed in the Parkway Gardens neighborhood on the South Side, one of four people shot in Chicago on Tuesday, police said.Christopher D. Brown, 23, was walking in...