Chicago police are investigating after a teenage girl was found beaten to death at a park earlier this week on the city's ...

Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle announced Monday that she is running for another term. Preckwinkle cited her ...

Crestwood police said just after 4 p.m. on March 5, officers and fire crews responded to a call of heavy smoke coming from ...

Meanwhile, there is still no teachers' strike on the horizon. But after 11 months of negotiating a new deal, Chicago Teachers ...

Sheriff's deputies took the weapon, quickly identified the officer it belonged to — who was still in the courthouse — and ...

Police said, shortly after 5 a.m., a pedestrian was hit by a Cook County Sheriff's squad car in the 9800 block of Milwaukee Avenue.

An intense line of thunderstorms moves into Chicago after 1 p.m. The threat of severe weather has increased across Chicago, with the risk of damaging wind, hail, and multiple tornadoes. The threat of ...

Mariah Ivy, of Steger, Illinois, died one day after jumping out of a third-floor window in the 8000 block of South Manistee Avenue in Chicago.

At least one person is dead and 20 others were wounded in weekend shootings across the city as of Sunday afternoon. The ages ...

Leighton Criminal Courthouse on Thursday, CBS News Chicago has learned. The Cook County Sheriff's office reported that shortly after 10 a.m., its deputies found a gun in a women's bathroom on the ...

His bond hearing is scheduled for noon on Sunday at the Cook County Courthouse in Chicago. Jeramie Bizzle is a web producer for CBS Chicago. Jeramie began working with CBS Chicago as an intern in ...

"That's the fact." The family said they plan to work with a lawyer. CBS News Chicago reached out to the Cook County Sheriff's office, which referred all questions to Glenview police — who are ...