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Native Chicagoan Bill Murray helped kick off the 50th Chicago Air and Water Show by jumping out of a plane 13,500 feet above the city with the U.S. Ar ...

The death of Bernie Mac shook Chicagoans because he was one of few stars who stayed true to their roots by living in the city they were born in.

Two hot-selling conservative books slam Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama: one using discredited rumors and allegations about his patriotism and personal life; the other claiming his public record ...

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As he lay slumped over his steering wheel with critical gunshot wounds, off-duty Chicago Police Detective Robert Soto managed to give a description of three men who he said robbed him, sources said.

Bill Murray landed in Chicago on Friday like he never had before - by jumping from an airplane 13,500 feet up.

Frank the gorilla, 44, was euthanized on Thursday after years of living with medical problems.

A call to 311 to report a cockroach in a sandwich led to the closure Wednesday of a North Side barbecue restaurant.

Tom and Anna Reed are solid citizens who would never think of breaking the law, but when $400,000 appears in the flat of their dead tenant, temptation grabs hold of them and they fall -- hard.

Chicago police say they are looking for a dark-colored car that fled the scene on the West Side after an off-duty officer was shot and injured and a woman was shot and killed early this morning.

White-picket fences, neatly cut lawns and backyard swing sets belie the eerie reality about Arlene Bensen's neighborhood: Nearly everyone is gone.

A shootout at a Southwest Side jewelry store ended with four people wounded. Police say it all started with an attempted robbery.

Fifty-seven-year-old Edward Gibson has been charged with first-degree murder. The nude body of 46-year-old Maratta Walker was found in a motel room closet at the Chicago Lodge at 920 West Foster.

A 23-year-veteran of the Chicago Police Department was critically wounded and a DCFS social worker who was with him was killed in an early Wednesday shooting in the West Side's Garfield Park neighborhood.

Georgian-Americans on Tuesday took to the streets to protest Russian military action in the former Soviet republic.

A man was charged late Thursday for allegedly firing the shots that struck an 11-year-old girl who was sitting on a porch with her mother Tuesday night in the South Chicago neighborhood.

A 57-year-old South Side man has been charged with murder in the death of a woman whose body was found stuffed in a closet of an Edgewater motel room in May.

Two owners of a Chicago real estate investment firm cheated investors out of more than $100 million by exploiting connections in the Orthodox Jewish community, federal authorities charged in criminal and civil ...

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First, Gov. Rod Blagojevich called on Chicago Mayor Richard Daley to come off the sidelines in his high-profile feud with House Speaker Michael Madigan over a stalled state construction program.