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Chicago police investigate the scene of an police shooting pNov. 29, 2017, in the 6100 block of South King Drive. p

Man dies after shot by Chicago police in Washington Park neighborhood

May 23, 2019 at 12:13 a.m.

A South Side man died after he was shot by police while armed with a semi-automatic pistol in the Washington Park neighborhood Wednesday afternoon, authorities said. Officers responded to a...

Police work the scene where a person was shot on the 800 block of North Homan Avenue Wednesday Nov. 29, 2017, in Chicago.

8 people shot in Chicago over 24 hours, including man killed by police on South Side

May 23, 2019 at 12:14 a.m.

Two men were shot Wednesday on the West and South Sides. A 33-year-old man suffered a graze wound to the head in the East Garfield Park neighborhood around 7:20 pm.,...

Lawsuit: Failure to maintain art project involving dead trees led to man’s death

May 23, 2019 at 12:13 a.m.

The wife of a 38-year-old man is suing the Chicago Park District for allegedly failing to maintain an art installation featuring a dead tree after he was reportedly killed by...

Nick Malkowicz, project manager of Schlumberger carbon services, describes components of an injection well during a tour of the new Illinois Industrial Carbon Capture and Storage project in Decatur, Ill., on Sept. 22, 2017.

Decatur plant at forefront of push to pipe carbon emissions underground, but costs raise questions

May 23, 2019 at 12:05 a.m.

As scientists and politicians around the world debate the best way to combat rising greenhouse gases, an Illinois ethanol plant, with help from state and federal researchers, is advancing a...

Chicago intends to sue U.S. Steel after 2 toxic spills this year, mayor says

May 31, 2019 at 4:05 p.m.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Monday threatened to sue U.S. Steel after one of the company’s northwest Indiana plants spilled toxic metal into a waterway less than 20 miles away from...

In Detroit, U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein addresses the North American International Cyber Summit on Oct. 30, 2017.

Deputy attorney general talks crime in Chicago, but leaves the Trumpisms in D.C.

May 23, 2019 at 12:11 a.m.

He didn't bring the same fire as his bosses, but Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein did carry the same message about Chicago and crime as he spoke Thursday night at...

An Illinois State Police car at the Illinois State Fairgrounds.

Suspects in Rantoul robbery hijack car on South Side after police pursuit

May 23, 2019 at 12:09 a.m.

Authorities are searching for two suspects who were involved in an armed robbery in small central Illinois village and escaped arrest during a police pursuit Thursday that ended on Chicago's...

Semaj Crosby’s grandmother: ‘Someone knows what happened’

May 31, 2019 at 4:09 p.m.

More than five months after 17-month-old Semaj Crosby was found dead underneath a couch in her Joliet Township home, two women identified by authorities as persons of interest in the...

A Rockford police car remains in the middle of a crime scene at Dawn Avenue and State Street in Rockford, Ill., near where a person was found dead and Rockford police Officer Jaimie Cox was found critically injured Nov. 5, 2017. Cox was later pronounced dead at an area hospital.

Questions remain over events leading to Rockford cop’s death

May 31, 2019 at 4:06 p.m.

Autopsies on a Rockford police officer and a 49-year-old man killed during a traffic stop over the weekend reveal some details about how they died but leave questions about the...

Police talk with Sauvignon Watkins' aunt Renda Harris and his stepfather Darryl Clark at the scene where Watkins was killed and two others wounded in a shooting inside an Uptown Starbucks shop late on Nov. 2, 2017.

Boy and 2 men shot at Uptown Starbucks: ‘This is just the one thing I prayed would never happen’

May 23, 2019 at 12:07 a.m.

The family's fears grew as they walked up to the Starbucks in Uptown and peered past the cops and crime tape Thursday night.Through a window decorated with orange paper leaves,...

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