A.C. Woods survived Wednesday night’s frigid temperatures huddled under blankets next to a space heater in his eight by ten foot bedroom. “I did alright I had this heater like that and I closed the door, heat getting in here was pretty good,” Woods said. Full Story »
Preliminary details have been released about the police-involved shooting that left an alleged robbery suspect fatally shot in the head by police on the South Side Thursday afternoon. Full Story »
An alleged robbery suspect who was shot in the head by police on the South Side Thursday afternoon has died. Full Story »
The husband of a woman who allegedly sustained injuries which lead to her death after she fell from a bicycle, filed a lawsuit Thursday against the makers of the bicycle helmet she was wearing at the time. Full Story »
The Milwaukee District North line of the Metra has been stopped in both directions near North suburban Lake Forest. Full Story »
A Cook County jury deliberated Wednesday afternoon and all day Thursday before finding Andre Crawford guilty of a string of rapes and murders on the South Side, the Sun-Times is reporting. Full Story »
A Lane Tech computer teacher has been removed from the campus after he was arrested Tuesday on prostitution-related charges. Full Story »
A former city Water Management employee was sentenced to four year's probation Thursday after being found guilty last month of bribing an undercover investigator posing as a city inspector to erase building code violations on his properties. Full Story »
State health officials are now giving healthcare providers the OK to offer the vaccine to anyone who wants it starting Tuesday. Full Story »
A U.S. House Judiciary Subcommittee declined to hear testimony Thursday in a case claiming U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald's office forced witnesses to lie. Full Story »
A Lane Tech High School computer teacher was arrested Tuesday on prostitution-related charges. Full Story »
Roughly 2 percent or 84 of the 4,200 of Chicago's "pay and display" parking boxes apparently couldn’t hack the single-digit temperatures overnight. Full Story »
Chicago - A man remains barricaded in a Southeast Side home Thursday morning after shots were exchanged with police officers responding to a report of the man violating an order of protection. Full Story »
Delays from Thursday morning on several CTA lines serving the Loop were caused by weather-related switching problems, but have been fixed in time for the evening rush. Full Story »
A teen has been charged with criminal sexual abuse and harboring a runaway after police found a 14-year-old girl — missing for more than a month — in his South Side Englewood home on Tuesday. Full Story »
Windy and cold. It's a one, two punch that is proving to be a challenge for all Chicagoans Thursday morning. Full Story »
Witnesses tell FOX Chicago News firefighters have returned to the scene of a deadly high-rise fire after flare-ups were discovered on the building's 35th floor. Full Story »
A “security guard” watching a building undergoing rehab fired a shotgun in the air when he mistook police officers on a drug investigation for burglars Wednesday night on the South Side. Full Story »
Two men were fatally shot during a reported drug-related home invasion Wednesday night on the South Side. Full Story »
An early Thursday fire at a Streeterville high-rise claimed the life of one resident and left 12 other people, including five firefighters, hospitalized. Full Story »
Federal prosecutors are getting ready to tell an appeals court why they think the five-year probation term imposed on former Chicago political leader Edward Vrdolyak is too light. Full Story »
t took about a third of the city’s fire equipment and more than two hours to control a blaze and evacuate residents of a Streeterville high-rise building after an early Thursday fire started on the upper floors. Full Story »
Mysterious and spooky---that's how producers of the Addams family describe the family, but the new musical is already earning rave reviews, not just for the performance but for what that show and other Broadway in Chicago shows are doing for Loop businesses. Full Story »
A body wrapped in plastic was found floating in the North Branch of the Chicago River on the Northwest Side Wednesday morning. Full Story »
A man was formally charged with attempted murder Wednesday for a 2008 shootout outside a Far South Side daycare where an an off-duty Chicago Police officer was picking up his daughter. Full Story »
A tree is reflected in a rain puddle in the German city of Stuttgart. AFP/DDP/Sascha Schuermann
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