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According to police, residents helped thwart one of the attacks.

Scattered showers and periods of rain were expected across the Chicago area Tuesday, with some heavy downpours and gusty storms possible at times.

CTA train service Tuesday morning was suspended on the Forest Park Branch between Forest Park and Harlem “due to track conditions,” an alert from the agency said Tuesday morning.

One of Chicago’s favorite beach bars has a new name and “reimagined” look heading into the 2024 summer season.

Lanes were closed for hours and a motorcyclist was killed following an overnight multi-vehicle crash in the suburbs.

A family is grieving after a toddler died and his parents were injured following a house fire Monday in Northwest Indiana.

Scattered showers and periods of rain were expected across the Chicago area Tuesday, with some heavy downpours and gusty storms possible at times.

A toddler has died and his parents were hospitalized after a fire in northwest Indiana on Monday.

A suspect is intentionally setting fires in trash receptacles on Chicago’s South Side, with some of those blazes spreading to nearby structures.

Chicago police have released surveillance footage and still images of a suspect wanted in connection to the shooting death of Officer Luis Huesca.

Chicago Police Officer Luis Huesca’s death Sunday marked at least the eighth time a police officer in Illinois has died by gunfire since 2020, according to the Officer Down Memorial Page, a national non-profit that keeps data on law enforcement deaths.

A jury in Chicago has decided fate of a woman accused of killing and dismembering her landlord in an Oct. 2022 attack in Chicago.

Extreme heat is the No. 1 weather-related cause of death, and above-normal hot summers are likely to continue.