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A pedestrian walks south on Western Avenue past the Western viaduct Feb. 9, 2016, in Chicago.

City prepares to tear down crumbling Western Avenue overpass

May 22, 2019 at 9:21 p.m.

After a delay of nearly a year, the Chicago Department of Transportation next month will begin demolishing the crumbling Western Avenue overpass at Belmont and Clybourn avenues, a department spokesman...

Pullman Porter Museum launches online registry of black railroad laborers

May 22, 2019 at 9:21 p.m.

Theodore Berrien worked as a Pullman porter from about 1940 to 1969, during which time he was chosen to accompany President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's funeral train on its route between...

Pullman Porter Museum launches online registry of black railroad laborers

May 22, 2019 at 9:21 p.m.

Theodore Berrien worked as a Pullman porter from about 1940 to 1969, during which time he was chosen to accompany President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's funeral train on its route between...

Lucy Aguilar lights candles Feb. 10, 2016, in front of a house in the Gage Park neighborhood where six people were killed a week earlier.

Grisly discovery in tidy brick home on quiet Gage Park street

May 22, 2019 at 9:20 p.m.

A co-worker's concerns about a man who failed to show up at work led to a grisly discovery Thursday afternoon on Chicago's Southwest Side — six bodies found inside a...

Six found slain in Gage Park home, including child: ‘We don’t know what happened’

May 22, 2019 at 9:20 p.m.

Hours after six bodies were discovered Thursday in a Gage Park bungalow, Noemi Martinez waited by the phone nearly 1,000 miles away in Texas, still not sure whether the victims...

CPD moves to fire, suspend cops tied to fatal Koschman case involving Daley nephew

May 22, 2019 at 9:20 p.m.

The Chicago Police Department took action Wednesday to fire a police lieutenant and suspend two other officers for their handling of the 2004 homicide investigation of David Koschman, who died...

Man exonerated of murder conviction sues Chicago police

July 15, 2019 at 11:18 p.m.

A former Chicago man who was exonerated last year after spending 12 years in prison for a murder he did not commit has filed a federal lawsuit against the city...

Chicago actor James Sherman, known as ‘Mr. Christmas,’ dies at 77

June 9, 2018 at 12:52 a.m.

Jim Sherman's perennial appearances in Christmastime stage plays made the seasoned Chicago-area actor practically synonymous with the holiday. "He was everyone's father and grandfather," said L. Walter Stearns, executive director...

Cops warn of two North Side armed robberies

May 22, 2019 at 9:19 p.m.

Police are asking residents of two North Side neighborhoods to be watchful for suspicious activity after victims were robbed at gunpoint in two separate incidents last week, according to Chicago...

2 ordered held in Uptown shooting

May 22, 2019 at 9:19 p.m.

Two alleged gang members appeared in court on Sunday in connection with the shooting of one of their own gang members last week in the Uptown neighborhood on the North...

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