The baby — identified by the Cook County Medical Examiner's office as Kloe Sophia Bastos Castillos — was found unresponsive in the 7200 block of South Winchester Avenue.

Information about homicides is released daily by the city of Chicago. The release of homicide victims’ names is delayed by two weeks to allow time for the victims’ families to be notified of a death ...

Mekhi Jarius Andry, 20, was arrested early Tuesday in Metairie as a fugitive and booked into the Jefferson Parish Correctional Center, jail records show. He will be extradited and booked into the ...

Officers responded to a report of gunfire Monday morning and found a woman and man, both 40 years old, fatally shot.

Chicago businessman Willie Wilson will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee, urging the National Guard’s deployment to Chicago amid what he calls a "public safety crisis," citing high ...

Chicago police have opened a homicide investigation after a South Loop Hotel employee found a man shot to death inside one of the hotel’s rooms Thursday afternoon, according to a police ...

1975: The Illinois Supreme Court voided a new death penalty law, saying the legislature lacked constitutional authority to create the three-judge sentencing panels.

Chicago aldermen condemned a social media post by the Chicago Teachers Union that praised Assata Shakur, a Black militant activist who was convicted a New Jersey state trooper in the 1970s.

Kevin Jackson, 44, was released from prison last year, after being found guilty of a 2001 murder in Englewood despite no evidence connecting him to the shooting. His lawsuit claims detectives ...

DeKalb County Sheriff's deputies found two dead in a Sycamore home; one person was detained after a vehicle was located.

A 33-year-old man was fatally shot while standing outside near a vehicle on Chicago's West Side. No arrests have been made, and the investigation is ongoing.

The CTU mourned the death of political activist Assata Shakur, who was convicted of murder in 1977 and on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists list.