A young boy was critically injured Thursday evening in a shooting in the South Shore neighborhood, according to the Chicago Fire Department. The boy, believed to be under 10, was wounded in the 1400 block of East 71st Place around 5:45 p.m., fire officials said. He was taken to Comer Children’s Hospital in serious-to-critical condition, […]
Who was behind the steering wheel is the critical question to be decided by a Porter County jury in determining responsibility for the tragic drowning death of a woman and the catastrophic injury of her toddler son three years ago.
A man is in custody in Bridgeview after allegedly stealing a police vehicle from Bedford Park and later a U.S. Postal Service truck, causing a crash that left three people injured Wednesday. The suspect took a police squad car after being arrested for disorderly conduct, which he drove toward the Chicago Ridge and Oak Lawn […]
Officers on patrol in Portage Park overnight alerted the residents of a building to the smell of smoke, preventing injuries, officials said.
A federal judge Wednesday set sentencing for former House Speaker Michael Madigan on bribery and other charges for June 13.
The ex-director of the Trump Tower condo board in Chicago sues, accusing the owners and managers of the famed skyscraper of fraud.
A Gary man is charged with killing his wife.
Friends and relatives of Charles Baird gathered outside a Will County courtroom Wednesday, tears of relief streaming down their faces as they embraced one another after a judge convicted a Harvey man in the 19-year-old’s shooting death at a New Lenox gas station. Baird’s family waited almost five years for closure after their middle child […]
News from Lake County courts and the U.S. District Court in Hammond
Opening statements took less than 15 minutes Tuesday morning in the trial of Marcus Wright, the 35-year-old Michigan City man accused of causing the death of his girlfriend and catastrophic injury to their toddler son in an auto accident in Pine Township three years ago. Prosecutors say Wright’s blood alcohol level was over twice the legal limit and he tested positive for THC.