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One person was shot in the parking lot of a Southeast Side hospital Tuesday evening.

The Chicago Tribune reports: Once the most powerful and feared patronage army in Mayor Richard Daley's political organization, the scandal-plagued Hispanic Democratic Organization is now officially extinct.

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Mayor Richard Daley says this morning's shooting death of a Chicago police officer is a "sad reminder" of how much gratitude is owed to the city's force.

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City building inspectors on Monday found code violations at the Chicago Housing Authority property in the 900 block of North Cambridge where a heavy gate broke free of its hinges and fatally crushed 3-year-old ...

Donald Cox was investigating the apparent firebombing of a Southeast Side home Sunday when he was struck by a bullet below his left ribs -- becoming the first Chicago firefighter believed to be shot in the line ...

Galesburg Police investigate suspicious death HyVee employee finds dead body behind store Fire spreads in Buffalo Two weeks ago, West Front Street was lined with tens of thousands of sandbags.

Two "persons of interest" are in custody at the Gary City Jail in connection with Saturday's shooting of 12-year-old Arbriana Turner near her house on 36th Place in the Glen Park section of Gary.

A Chicago man was sentenced to 80 years in prison Friday after his conviction earlier this year in the robbery, sexual assault and abduction of an Evanston woman.

The 28-year-old Chicago woman who died after being hit by a boat while wake-boarding on Geneva Lake over the weekend was passionate about her career as a registered nurse, friends said Monday.

After a lone arson investigator was shot early Sunday as he checked an alley where a Molotov cocktail had been tossed against a house, the Chicago Fire Department will change its policy and have investigators ...

Oil prices fluctuated Monday, surging past $143 a barrel for the first time and then falling back as a rising dollar prompted some investors to sell.

Back in January, economists were calling food and energy expensive. They didn't know what expensive was.

Farmers will harvest nearly 9 percent fewer acres of corn this year than last year, in part because of Midwest flooding that has damaged a portion of the crop, the government reported Monday.

A spokesman for the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. railroad said a woman using a walker was struck and killed by a Union Pacific Corp.

Chicago police are investigating the shooting deaths of two men and a woman whose bodies were found at a residence in the South Shore neighborhood on the city's South Side.

A man has been charged with drunken driving for a crash on the shoulder of the Bishop Ford Freeway early Saturday that killed his 22-year-old brother.