CITY HALL — Of the 804 new Chicago Police officers hired in 2017, 41 percent are white, according to data provided to aldermen Thursday. Some 35 percent are Hispanic, 17 percent are black and 7 ...
TRIBECA — Eight people were killed and nearly a dozen injured when a terrorist driving a rental truck struck multiple people during a 20-block rampage along a bike path on West Street Tuesday ...
NEW YORK CITY — Hurricane Sandy hit the city after dusk Oct. 29, 2012, killing 44 people, flooding entire neighborhoods and subways, and knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of residents.
COOK COUNTY CRIMINAL COURTHOUSE — A driver who caused a fatal crash outside Holy Family Catholic Church on Monday was going nearly 90 mph after drinking wine and smoking marijuana, prosecutors said ...
WRIGLEYVILLE — In Wrigleyville, just a block from the home of the Chicago Cubs, rests an unassuming yellow shack where Tom Boyle has found the secret to time travel. Walk through its narrow door and ...
DUNNING — Wrecking crews this week pronounced the end of Ralph Frese's Chicagoland Canoe Base, 4019 N. Narragansett Ave., which spent decades as an iconic craft workshop known as the city's last ...
HIGHLAND PARK — The famous glass and steel home that served as the set for Cameron Frye's house in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" is undergoing a historic renovation — and it's not because a bright red ...
RIVER NORTH — MK Restaurant, an upscale outpost of Chicago chain DMK Restaurants, is closing next week after 18 years in River North. The restaurant led by chef Michael Kornick at 868 N. Franklin St.
LAKEVIEW — For some, going to church is like coming home. And for others, that's true in an even more literal sense. But perhaps no rebirth lends as much scope to the imagination as houses of worship ...
A rendering of the future development planned for Hallets Point, which would include 2,000 apartments — 483 of them affordable — along with a supermarket, school and waterfront esplanade to rise over ...
CHICAGO — On St. Patrick's Day, everybody's Irish, right? But for the rest of the year, some people actually are and others aren't. Using U.S. Census Bureau estimates covering 2011 to 2015, we went in ...
MANHATTAN — An 18-year-old Muslim college student who claimed three men screaming "Donald Trump!" attacked her on a Manhattan subway platform was arrested on charges of filing a false report after ...