The Chicago Police Department is hoping to ease tensions in communities rocked by gun violence in recent days. Coffee found to have startling effect on aging, says new study The Supreme Court handed ...

Union leaders like to pitch “solidarity” among their members, but it’s often a political fiction. So it was last week when the rank-and-file of the Chicago Teachers Union rejected a union ballot ...

A mass shooting in Chicago on Sunday, May 24, left four teenagers injured, authorities said, just days after city officials pleaded for the public's help to curb violence ahead of the summer. Just ...

Investigators believe the driver of a black Jeep SUV failed to obey a traffic signal on westbound Ida B. Wells Drive and crashed into the officers' marked squad car, which was heading southbound on ...

EXCLUSIVE: There is major changing of the guard on Chicago Fire. Andrea Newman, who has been on NBC‘s firefighter drama for its entire 14-season run to date and showrunner for the past three seasons, ...

A Chicago dad who was expecting his second child was bludgeoned to death outside a bar in an early morning attack — as police seek to question four persons of interest who have eluded capture in the ...

A young father of one with a second child on the way was beaten to death late last month outside a Chicago bar, and cops need help locating his killers. Blunt force trauma was the cause of death for ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on April 9, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. Front page flashback: April 10, 1865 ...

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Shocking videos show hundreds of rampaging teens brawling and jumping on cars during a spring-break takeover of downtown Chicago — forcing an emergency curfew to gain control. Witnesses said around ...