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Citing the high cost of prosecution, limited resources and previous convictions, the Cook County State’s Attorney on Monday said that she’s dropping sex-abuse charges against singer R. Kelly following federal convictions in two courts that should guarantee the disgraced R&B star will be locked up for decades.

At least three people were injured after a speeding vehicle blew through a red light and slammed into a sedan, which then struck multiple pedestrians on Chicago’s South Side Monday night.

Chicago police are searching for answers after a 96-year-old woman was found dead in a freezer on the city’s Northwest Side Monday afternoon.

Authorities in Los Angeles have an elite homicide division working on a shooting that happened outside of a short-term rental home, and as they go about their work, family members are reeling from the devastating tragedy.

If you’re already thinking about planning the perfect Valentine’s Day with your sweetheart, and want to make the occasion as romantic as possible, there’s some good news: you don’t have to travel far.

While residents are used to voting for citywide offices and for members of the City Council in off-year elections, this year’s ballot will include a new series of offices, as district councils will be elected in each of Chicago’s 22 police districts.

Police in north suburban Glenview have launched a search for the individual who tried to kidnap a girl just as she got off a school bus Monday afternoon, according to law enforcement. At approximately 3:41 p.m., officers with the Glenview Police Department were called to the area of Milwaukee Avenue and Kennicott Lane in regard to an attempted kidn...

A Illinois State University student whose body was found near a creek after disappearing last week died from drowning, authorities said.

Activists from Black Lives Matter Lake County, Violence Interrupters, the Antmound Foundation, and the Legacy Reentry Foundation are standing in unity with the family of Tyre Nichols, the Memphis man who died after being beaten by police officers during a traffic stop.

Daytime TV talk show host and famed musician Kelly Clarkson has shown unflappable stage presence for years, but her effortless takedown of a Malört shot may be one of her greatest accomplishments yet.

Temperatures are 20 degrees below normal for this time of year, but even among the frigid readings and the snow on the ground, an important step in Chicago’s march toward spring was just taken on Monday.

A 1-year-old boy was killed in a Milwaukee crash after someone stole his mother’s vehicle with the infant still inside, authorities say. Zarion Robinson was found partially strapped into his car seat, which had overturned, after the car collided with another vehicle Friday night on the city’s Northwest Side. Zarion was taken to an area ...

An overturned semi-truck is causing massive traffic delays on the westbound Eisenhower Expressway Monday afternoon.