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‘You’re fearing for your life’: Passenger recalls CTA subway shooting

May 22, 2019 at 11:49 p.m.

A gunman standing on a Loop subway platform opened fire into a CTA train stopped at Jackson, wounding a man as panicked passengers scrambled for cover Thursday night, officials said....

Eclipse offers rare opportunity to study sun, atmosphere, animals

June 2, 2018 at 11:59 p.m.

When daylight slowly surrendered into darkness during a solar eclipse in ancient times, some civilizations believed the spectacle was the result of an enormous creature devouring the sun. In the...

Three arrested at anti-white supremacy protest outside North Side courtroom

May 22, 2019 at 11:48 p.m.

Three people were arrested during an anti-white supremacy protest Tuesday outside a North Side criminal court building, according to Chicago police. About two dozen protesters, many wearing bandanas or masks...

Chicago police officers investigate where three people were killed in an attack Aug. 13, 2017, in the East Side neighborhood on the city's Southeast Side.

Man tells police he shot and killed 3 people who broke into his Southeast Side home

May 22, 2019 at 11:48 p.m.

A man told police he shot and killed three people — a man, a woman and a teenage boy — who broke into his home on the Southeast Side Sunday...

Two little girls race toward a gas station as a man looks toward the scene of a double homicide near Friendship Baptist Church, located in the 200 block of South Laramie, on Aug. 13, 2017, in the Austin community.

Father yells for children to take cover as he and another man are shot dead on church steps

May 22, 2019 at 11:48 p.m.

The sermon was just about to begin Sunday morning as Emmanuel Fleming walked up the steps of South Austin's Friendship Baptist Church accompanied by his three young children. It was...

15-year-old girl missing from West Side

May 22, 2019 at 11:47 p.m.

Chicago police are searching for a 15-year-old girl who disappeared over the weekend from the West Side. Tashay Richards was last seen Saturday in the 3500 block of West 13th...

Mom of 14-year-old boy shot dead in Pilsen: ‘I’m so sorry I wasn’t there for you’

May 22, 2019 at 11:46 p.m.

The mother of a 14-year-old boy held onto wooden stairs early Sunday as she asked her son for forgiveness. "I'm so sorry," she said. "I wasn't there for you. Oh,...

ComEd investigating after outage hits 4,000 South Side customers

May 22, 2019 at 11:45 p.m.

More than 4,000 Commonwealth Edison customers were briefly left without power Wednesday evening on Chicago's South Side, according to a company spokeswoman. The affected ComEd customers in Oakland, Kenwood and...

Man wounded near Millennium Park, second shooting at intersection in 9 months

May 22, 2019 at 11:33 p.m.

People thought they heard fireworks as they strolled near Millennium Park and the Art Institute of Chicago on a warm evening Thursday.But it was gunfire, a man in his 20s...

Chicago police investigate where four people were shot near the 800 block of North Monticello Avenue on Aug. 1, 2017.

4 shot in Humboldt Park: ‘You have to be heartless … to shoot on a porch full of kids and the elderly’

May 22, 2019 at 11:45 p.m.

Moments before a gunman shot into a crowd of people on the West Side Tuesday night, a 66-year-old man was sitting on the porch of his Humboldt Park home with...

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