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An apparently volatile relationship that attracted the attention of Waukegan police several times in the recent past appears to have come to a violent end Saturday.

The U.S. Department of Education has awarded Chicago Public Schools a $5.2 million grant for the creation of Smaller Learning Communities, or schools-within-a-school, in four large CPS high schools over the ...

Ronald Evans, a 5-year-old known as 'Sugar Man' because he was so generous with hugs and kisses, just wanted to watch fireworks with friends, family members said Friday.

More police officers were to be at Friday events in downtown Chicago after a 19-year-old man was shot and killed and three others were wounded following a pre-Independence Day fireworks display on Chicago's ...

Chicago police shot and critically wounded a person early Sunday on the city's South Side, police said.

At about 2:13 a.m., police responded to a call of shots fired in the 6100 block of South Kedzie Avenue, the Chicago Police News Affairs office said in a release. Police and an armed person exchanged gunfire. The suspect was struck and transported to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn in critical condition, according to police.

The Independent Police Review Authority is investigating the incident.

Bond was set at $1 million Sunday afternoon for a 23-year-old man charged with burglary, murder and traffic violations in connection with a fatal hit-and-run last week that took the life of a 78-year-old woman.

Before Thursday night's dazzling fireworks display downtown, Chicago's Olympic committee aired a promotional video urging Chicagoans to support the city's Olympic bid.

Three children and a woman were hospitalized after a hit-and-run accident early Saturday on Chicago's South Side, authorities said.

In May 2007, Annette Nance-Holt's teenage son Blair Holt was shot to death on a Chicago bus.

A 22-year-old man was shot and wounded early Saturday in downtown Chicago, police said.

The victim was with a group that encountered another group of people around 12:45 a.m. at Randolph Street and Michigan Avenue, police said. The victim got into an altercation with a member of the second group and was shot in the torso, police said. He was in stable condition at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, police said.

Police had no motive and no suspect in custody. The incident is under investigation.

Two Chicago police officers were injured Friday night when a vehicle ran a stop sign and crashed into their squad car in the Back of the Yards neighborhood on the South Side.

A man suspected in a Saturday morning Wicker Park bank robbery slit his throat with a box cutter as police were moving in to arrest him, sources said.

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A man is in serious condition after being shot by a police officer Friday evening in the Southeast Side's South Chicago neighborhood.

A bicyclist, reportedly a Chicago Police officer, was hospitalized, after being hit by a car Monday night in the South Loop.

Chicago's no Second City, at least not when it comes to sales taxes. A boost in the Cook County sales tax that took effect on Tuesday means people shopping in Chicago now pay a cumulative 10.25 percent levy - ...

Chicago police will be out in greater numbers for tonight's Navy Pier fireworks show after four people were shot last night as crowds streamed out of the Grant Park fireworks and Taste of Chicago.

An amateur body-builder is suing the Chicago Free Press and a North Side gay bar after the paper ran an ad featuring him clad in leather and chains, allegedly without his consent.

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.