One person was killed and seven were injured early Sunday morning in a four-vehicle crash that shut down the Eisenhower ...

Originally built as a housing project for African-American families during segregation, Chicago’s O’Block eventually became infamous for gang wars, shootings, poverty, and drill music culture, where ...

Arnold Day was convicted and sentenced to 60 years in prison in 1992 based on confessions coerced by Chicago police detectives trained by Jon Burge, a disgraced Chicago police commander, according to ...

Pastor Corey Brooks drew roughly 750 men on the South Side to declare the block around the new Project H.O.O.D. center a "100 ...

Stop-and-frisk, which a federal court had ruled was discriminatory as practiced, had been touted as a form of crime ...

The NBA offseason rewards the bold. Teams that are proactive in addressing their needs tend to be successful and, as the ...

On a cool, drizzly day in Oakland, California, the film director Boots Riley often seemed less like a person than like a ...

William Lee is a senior deputy metro editor and writer who has covered crime, politics, neighborhoods and pop culture. He is a graduate of Hyde Park Academy and Western Illinois University. May 23, ...

As the U.S. targets corrupt Mexican officials who aided the imprisoned drug lord’s clan, a civil war rages for control of the ...

As a retired police chief and a Fellow of Law Enforcement at Awake Illinois, I have been advocating for the creation of a statewide warrant task force because Illinois’ current warrant system is ...

A gunman allegedly struck a teen girl in the head with a gun before later firing shots in Mundelein and saying that he would ...