Markham police

The nephew of a spokesman for multiple suburban police department was killed in a shooting that also wounded his girlfriend in front of their newborn child Tuesday evening in south suburban Markham.

Markham police provided an update after two children were reported missing late Wednesday. The children are believed to be in danger after authorities said they were taken by their father, who is a person of interest in the shooting death of their mother.

A Lyft driver was carjacked at gunpoint Saturday afternoon in northwest Indiana, an incident that ended with five people in custody following a crash and home invasion in the south suburbs, police said.

Cook County authorities trying to identify a baby found dead in the wreckage of a fire at a vacant south suburban home last month think they know what she looked like.

The body of a baby was found in the wreckage of a fire in a south suburban home. The home was vacant and the baby has not been identified.

A police officer shot and killed a man outside a nightclub in south suburban Markham early Sunday, authorities confirmed.