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Police believe a fire that killed a 60-year-old man in East Chatham Saturday morning may have been started intentionally.

Five people, including four firefighters, were hospitalized Sunday when the brakes failed on a Chicago Fire Department engine, sending it flying into a vehicle at an intersection in Chatham on the South Side.

The family of a 34-year-old woman filed a lawsuit Tuesday claiming that a Chicago police officer recklessly turned his police car and ran the victim over, causing her to suffer a traumatic brain injury.

Chicago police investigators have found inconsistencies in the initial story of a man who was shot and killed after rushing to help his teenage niece who was being sexually assaulted in a Burnside home, a police spokesman said.

A man was killed Thursday after rushing to help his teenage niece who was being sexually assaulted in her bedroom in a Burnside home, authorities said.

A teen was shot while riding a CTA bus Monday in South Chicago.

Three people were left homeless Sunday after a fire ravaged a home in Grand Crossing on the South Side.

A man was killed and three others injured Wednesday in an apartment fire in Park Manor on the South Side.

One adult and three children were injured — one critically — after a fire tore through an apartment on Friday in the city’s West Pullman neighborhood.

A multi-vehicle crash on Lake Shore Drive Friday killed a 25-year-old man and left his passenger in critical condition.

Chicago police are searching for a man who allegedly fired shots at a CTA bus Monday in Greater Grand Crossing on the South Side.

Chicago police are searching for a man who allegedly fired shots at a CTA bus Monday in Greater Grand Crossing on the South Side. Susan Carlson reports.

Chicago police have released from custody a man suspected of shooting three passengers on a CTA bus after determining he wasn’t the gunman.

Authorities responded to reports of multiple people shot in a CTA bus in the Chatham neighborhood Monday evening, according to the Chicago Fire Department.

Three people were injured when a gunman fires shots into a CTA bus during rush hour, police say. A person of interest is now being questioned. NBC 5’s Lexi Sutter reports.

Multiple teens coming home from prom night were hospitalized after a crash Saturday in Ashburn.