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Man, 18, stole Taser after Police Explorers training session: authorities

May 10, 2019 at 10:44 p.m.

A young man from Waukegan is accused of stealing a Taser from the Mundelein Police Department following a Police Explorers youth training session he attended. Based on their preliminary investigation,...

Archbishop Blase Cupich baptizes 2-month-old Gabrielle Marie Mitchell, who is held by her godmother, Pamela Mitchell, during Easter Mass at St. Ailbe Catholic Church in the Calumet Heights neighborhood on the Far South Side on March 27, 2016.

Cupich addresses fear of terrorism, gun violence in Easter homily

June 30, 2019 at 11:23 p.m.

Days after the deadly attacks in Brussels, Archbishop Blase Cupich addressed acts of terrorism abroad as well as gun violence in the streets of Chicago during an Easter homily at...

Chicago police investigate where three officers were shot in the 3700 block of West Polk Street on March 14, 2016.

Gun used to shoot 3 Chicago cops traced to sheriff’s deputy: sources

March 16, 2020 at 7:47 p.m.

The gun used in the shooting of three Chicago police officers last week has been linked to a former Chicago officer who later joined a police force in the northern...

Christian aid workers from Chicago area stranded in Brussels after attacks

May 22, 2019 at 9:34 p.m.

Chicago-area residents who were on their way to Africa for a mission trip were at the Brussels airport during Tuesday's terror attacks. Reached by phone at a makeshift Red Cross...

Police officers search for suspects near Fox Lake after the fatal shooting of police Lt. Joe Gliniewicz on Sept. 1, 2015. Officials later said Gliniewicz took his own life.

2 men sue Fox Lake, say they were targeted as cop shooting suspects

May 23, 2019 at 11:21 p.m.

Two men who said they were wrongly targeted as suspects in the shooting of Fox Lake police Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz before authorities determined the officer killed himself have sued...

Police investigate report of gunfire during road-rage incident on Edens ramp

May 22, 2019 at 9:33 p.m.

An exit ramp on the Edens Expressway was briefly shut down Monday morning after police received reports of gunfire following an apparent road-rage incident, according to the Illinois State Police....

Police work the crime scene at Albany Avenue and Ainslie Street in the Albany Park neighborhood, where two people were shot and one died on March 20, 2016.

Police: Boy, 7, apparently shot and killed himself while playing

May 22, 2019 at 9:33 p.m.

Police are investigating how a 7-year-old boy apparently shot and killed himself while playing inside his home in the Englewood neighborhood Sunday afternoon.Devon Lofton, a first-grader, suffered a gunshot wound...

2 killed, including 7-year-old boy, and 9 wounded in Chicago shootings Sunday through Monday

May 22, 2019 at 9:33 p.m.

A 7-year-old boy and a 23-year-old man were killed, and nine people including an off-duty Chicago police officer were wounded in shootings in Chicago from Sunday afternoon through early Monday,...

Holy Angels School as photographed Thursday, March 10, 2016, in Chicago. The school has closed after lead particles were reportedly found in the ventilation system.

South Side Catholic school shuttered by lead to reopen Monday

May 22, 2019 at 9:31 p.m.

When David Fields learned "above-normal lead levels" had been discovered in Holy Angels Catholic School, the announcement appeared to be a nightmarish case of deja vu for the Bronzeville parent....

Stay Connected store clerk Brenda Cazares closes the West Humboldt Park store for the night by lowering the security shutters on March 10, 2016.

Citing ‘negative image,’ Waukegan bans some storefront security shutters

May 23, 2019 at 11:21 p.m.

When the cellular store Stay Connected opened a little more than a year ago in West Humboldt Park, the owner installed a security shutter outside to deter would-be criminals. Manager...

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