The Second City came in sixth in a study on access to public transportation. Walk Score ranked New York, San Francisco, Boston and Washington, D.C. at the top of the list. Chicago followed Philadelphia, and Las Vegas, Columbus and Raleigh brought up th... »
Fire crews are responding to a HazMat situation in the West Side Austin neighborhood Tuesday morning. Crews responded to a Level I HazMat call involving an underground Commonwealth Edison cable vault in the 5100 block of West Grand Avenue about 7:05 a.... »
Four people were killed and more than 20 were hurt in separate shootings this weekend."We are conducting gang audits in each district, which means we are sitting down with a map, we are sitting down with the officers who work on those beats," said McCa... »
Illinois health officials say the remarkably warm weather means bats are active earlier this year. That increases the risk of exposure to rabies. The Illinois Department of Public Health announced Tuesday that two people are getting treatment after a b... »
Chicago police say they fired at a suspect who was fleeing from officers and then collided with another squad car on the West Side around midnight in the North Austin neighborhood.The chase ended in the 1200-block of North Lavergne when the vehicle hit... »
Three men were scheduled to appear in bond court Saturday on charges in connection with the armed robbery of a store and a police shoot out in Chicago's West Side Austin neighborhood.Leevon Carter, Richie Cole and Omar Young are charged with armed robb... »
Four people were in critical condition Thursday after a robbery in Chicago's Austin neighborhood.It happened at a beauty supply store Wednesday night in the 5100-block of West Lake Street. Police officers confronted three armed robbers who began firing... »
A 22-year-old man and a 13-year-old boy have been arrested for allegedly filming themselves torturing dogs and puppies and posting the videos on the Internet. Joshua Moore and the teenager are accused of spinning puppies on their leashes, rubbing alcoh... »
Chicagoan Jeremy Hammond, aka Anarchaos, is being held without bond in connection with an international hacking case. Hammond, 27, was arrested late Monday in Chicago in connection to the December 2011 hack of Strategic Forecasting Inc, a global intell... »
Cameras that record speeding have caused plenty of controversy in Chicago, but it turns out things could be worse. The wireless app Trapster has a list of the cities with the most speed traps, including red light cameras. Trapster relies on users to su... »
A Rogers Park elementary school principal is under investigation after several students accuse him of physical abuse. Three students say the principal of Kilmer Elementary School went over the line when he disciplined the students Wednesday. Chicago pu... »
Investigators say a driver has been charged in an alcohol-related wreck that claimed the lives of two Fort Hood soldiers. The Williamson County Sheriff's Office says Ida Marie Fruster of Killeen was jailed Thursday on two counts of intoxication manslau... »
Some Chicago aldermen are blinking as they consider Mayor Rahm Emanuel's plan to install speed cameras near schools and parks.Several aldermen want some limits on when during the day the cameras will be used before they will vote for the cameras. In ad... »
A young soldier training for duty that he hoped would include service in Afghanistan was gunned down in Chicago. Private First Class Matthew Zavala of the Illinois National Guardwas was killed in the city's Austin neighborhood Saturday morning in the 2... »
Yet another wrong-way driver crashes into a car on the Eisenhower Expressway. The victim in that accident survived and shared his story.It was Scott Davis's worst nightmare. A van was speeding the wrong way toward him as he traveled to work Saturday mo... »
