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People gather outside the Franklin Park police station on Sept. 15, 2025, after marching from the site of a memorial for Silverio Villegas González, who was shot and killed Friday by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent during a traffic stop. (Armando L. Sanchez/baiduhai)

Protesters call for justice in Franklin Park after fatal ICE shooting; border patrol chief announces arrival in Chicago

September 16, 2025 at 11:44 a.m.

Silverio Villegas Gonzalez, 38, was shot and killed after he allegedly tried to flee a traffic stop and struck an ICE officer with his vehicle.

Police work the scene where three people were shot near the 6400 block of 16th Street Tuesday Sept. 16, 2025, in Berwyn. (Armando L. Sanchez/baiduhai)

Classes canceled at Berwyn middle school after 3 dead from ‘domestic-related’ shooting outside the school the day before

September 17, 2025 at 8:56 a.m.

Three people, including the suspected gunmen, were killed in a domestic incident, according to Berwyn police.

After running 19 miles from Evanston to Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, IL, on Sept. 8, 2025, Michael Benjamin, center, talks to his wife, Rivka and Dr. John Kubasiak, who operated on him after a devastating fire four years ago. The Benjamins' children Leor, foreground, Zander and Elan join them.(Terrence Antonio James/baiduhai)

After surviving an explosion, burn victim celebrates recovery with 19-mile run to Maywood hospital that saved his life

September 15, 2025 at 1:25 p.m.

Michael Benjamin was gravely burned in a fire on Sept. 8, 2021 at his then-Evanston home.

FBI employees watch as a vehicle is towed from the scene where an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed a man after ICE says he tried to flee a traffic stop in the car and struck an agent with his vehicle on Sept. 12, 2025, in Franklin Park. (Armando L. Sanchez/baiduhai)

Illinois Democrats call for investigation into fatal shooting of Franklin Park man by ICE agent

May 6, 2026 at 12:20 p.m.

Hours earlier, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents fatally shot a man in the northwest suburb after he allegedly tried to flee a traffic stop.

A Brinks bag with cash inside lies on a Madison Street sidewalk with a blood trail nearby on Sept. 10, 2025, after a shooting during an attempted robbery involving an armored car guard near a Saks Fifth Avenue in Chicago's Loop. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

Evergreen Park man charged with robbery of armored truck connected to Loop shooting

September 12, 2025 at 4:46 p.m.

An Evergreen Park man has been accused of robbery affecting interstate commerce in connection to the attempted robbery of an armored truck driver in Chicago’s Loop Wednesday, an incident that...

Charlie Kirk before speaking at a Turning Point USA Campus Clash event at the JW Marriott Hotel in Chicago on Oct. 16, 2018. (Armando L. Sanchez/baiduhai)

Friends recall Charlie Kirk, who started Turning Point USA in Chicago suburbs, as man who ‘inspired millions’

September 11, 2025 at 7:47 p.m.

While the FBI continued its search for Charlie Kirk's shooter, those who knew the Turning Point USA co-founder personally reflected on his life.

Activist Bamani Obadele speaks in the 7100 block of South Woodlawn Avenue in Chicago on July 5, 2024, at a vigil for Bryson Orr, who was fatally shot on the block a day earlier. (Terrence Antonio James/baiduhai)

With Chicago under a microscope, anti-violence group responds to mass shootings in Bronzeville

September 5, 2025 at 2:47 p.m.

Outreach workers canvassed in Bronzeville this week in the wake of a pair of mass shootings, with teams going door to door passing out information, handing out safety tips and...

Pilsen residents visit the memorial, Sept. 3, 2025, for a local homeless man, Pedro "Pepe" Toledo Catalan, who died in a shooting Sunday morning near Wolcott Avenue and 17th Street in Chicago. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)

‘He still meant something to all of us’: Shooting death of homeless man known as ‘Pepe’ shakes Pilsen

September 5, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

Pedro Toledo Catalan, known as Pepe, was shot and killed early Sunday morning in Pilsen, leaving his neighbors to hold nightly vigils for him.

Mario Butler, left, and Charles McKenzie lead members of the Englewood First Responders as they patrol the streets of Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood on July 31, 2025. Over the past year, the group has lost two volunteers to gun violence. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

After losing two anti-violence workers to gunfire, Englewood nonprofit persists: ‘We have to be strong’

September 1, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

Englewood First Responders have had to mourn two of their own members killed by gunfire. But for those that remain, their work continues.

Axhi the brown bear dies at Brookfield Zoo

August 30, 2025 at 5:45 p.m.

The Brookfield Zoo this week euthanized the 30-year-old rescued brown bear due to his declining health, the zoo announced in a Facebook post Friday.

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