September 3, 2018 Chicago anti-violence protesters try, fail to shut down expressway near O'Hare Airport, 12 arrested A dozen anti-violence protesters were arrested in Chicago Monday after they tried and failed to block an expressway that leads to O’Hare International Airport, police said.
September 3, 2018 Chicago's violent Labor Day weekend leaves at least 6 dead; more than 1,000 shot since Memorial Day Violence erupted over the Labor Day weekend in Chicago leaving six people dead and another 23 wounded from shooting related incidents, despite an overall decrease in crime compared to last summer.
September 1, 2018 Taxi strikes, injures 8 pedestrians at Chicago's Navy Pier: reports A taxi cab struck eight pedestrians on a sidewalk near Chicago's Navy Pier after crashing with an SUV on Saturday, reports said.
August 31, 2018 Chicago's children caught in the crossfire: Alarming number of minors shot or killed in violence-plagued city Since September 2011 at least 174 people under the age of 17 have been killed while 1,665 kids have been shot.
August 31, 2018 Illinois man convicted - again - for killing man who answered Craigslist ad for sex with his pregnant wife An Illinois man was convicted for first-degree murder – again – for the shooting death of a man who allegedly went to his house to pay for sex with this then-pregnant wife.
August 31, 2018 Illinois Dem candidate compares Trump to bin Laden, then backtracks An Illinois congressional hopeful is backtracking after he said President Trump had a “tremendous amount in common” with Usama bin Laden.
August 30, 2018 Chicago police officer believes Laquan McDonald murder charge is political: 'I'm not a racist' The Chicago police officer who fired 16 shots that killed a 17-year-old teen armed with a small knife and sparked massive protests when video of the incident was released said Wednesday he was just doing what he was trained to do, and that the case brought against him is motivated by politics.
August 30, 2018 Emmett Till's classmate, 'girlfriend' speaks out for first time, says he was 'nice kid with a nice smile' More than six decades after Emmett Till was savagely killed in a racially-motivated attack in Mississippi, a woman whose photograph he apparently boasted about to his murderers is speaking out for the first time.
August 30, 2018 Cigarette helps police nab suspect in brutal stabbing death of neighbor A discarded cigarette helped Illinois authorities track down a man who is suspected of brutally murdering a woman in 2009, police said.
August 27, 2018 Man, 2 kids found dead in Chicago murder-suicide, police say Two young children were found dead in Chicago on Monday in an apparent murder-suicide at the hands of an older man, police said.
