Safeguards failed as 2 cars hit freight train
Black tanker cars camouflaged by pre-dawn darkness and a deactivated railroad warning system covered up any hint of the terrifying automobile collisions with a freight train that were about to...
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Death of teen after root canal surgery shocks family, community
In the days after Christopher Schutzius, 17. underwent root canal surgery, there were moments when he seemed invigorated and fine, and others when he complained of feeling achy and tired,...
City passes blizzard test
As Chicagoans put away their snowblowers and "dibs" chairs — for now — city officials can look back on the Groundhog Day Blizzard of 2011 and congratulate themselves: An overwhelming...
Gone in 60 seconds: Bears-Packers tickets go on sale
Were you one of the lucky ones? A limited number of tickets went on sale to the public this afternoon for Sunday's NFC championship game between the Chicago Bears and...
Bears vs. Packers: The hottest ticket in Chicago sports history, brokers say
Bryan Holst has four tickets to the biggest game in the 90-year rivalry between the Chicago Bears and the Green Bay Packers. On Monday, he put them up for sale....
Masked gunman slays teen at bus stop
A masked gunman shot a 15-year-old boy to death Wednesday night at a bus stop in the West Woodlawn neighborhood on the South Side. About 6:48 p.m., Shonele Gregory was...
Deputies who saved 4 from fire: We’d do it again
Two veteran Cook County sheriff's deputies who rescued four people from a fire Tuesday on Chicago's South Side said today they would not hesitate to charge into a burning building...
Bishop Ford back in business
Both directions of the Bishop Ford Freeway reopened Saturday morning, a day after the highway was shut down for hours when a dump truck slammed into an overpass at 115th...
Amtrak crash a mystery
Shortly before an Amtrak train carrying almost 200 people rear-ended a stopped freight train in Chicago on Friday, a dispatcher ordered the passenger liner to slow down, prepare to switch...
Texas visitor to Chicago died in bus crash
A Texas woman returning home after visiting family in Chicago was identified Tuesday as the third fatality in a crash involving a Chicago-to-Dallas passenger bus in eastern Arkansas, officials said....