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An ambulance driver enters a gated enclosed area outside the emergency room entrance at Mount Sinai Medical Center on May 6, 2018 in Chicago.

Security concerns come to light following shooting outside Mount Sinai Hospital

May 31, 2019 at 9:05 p.m.

Security issues have been brought to light at Mount Sinai Hospital in the wake of a drive-by shooting Saturday that injured two women outside the hospital. Police Sunday were still...

Ana y sus tres hijos dejaron todo y huyeron a Estados Unidos en 2015 para escapar de la violencia.

Dejan su país para salvar la vida

December 13, 2018 at 2:53 p.m.

CHICAGO — La pesadilla comenzó hace cuatro años para Ana y su familia, cuando la brutal pandilla MS-13 mató a su esposo en su natal El Salvador. La familia había...

Ana, from El Salvador, at the Lake Street Church of Evanston on April 25, 2018. Ana and her two sons are currently living in Evanston as they work on getting her 22 year-old daughter, Yesica, out of a deportation facility in Texas.

Lawmakers, advocates rally to support Salvadoran family split apart at U.S.-Mexico border

May 11, 2019 at 11:32 a.m.

The nightmare began four years ago for Ana and her family, when the brutal MS-13 gang killed her husband in their native El Salvador. The family had been the target...

Two men are accused of entering Holy Name Cathedral four straight weekends and stealing cash from the safe that holds money from the collection baskets.

Security guard, friend used key to steal as much as $100,000 in church collections from Holy Name, prosecutors say

May 31, 2019 at 9:05 p.m.

As they had been doing for at least a month, a security guard and his friend let themselves into Holy Name Cathedral with a key on April 15, went to...

Chicago police investigate the scene where a 5-year-old girl was shot in the ankle in the 4600 block of North Monticello Avenue in the Albany Park neighborhood on April 29, 2018.

5-year-old shot on way to park on Northwest Side: ‘It’s a shocking moment, a hurting moment’

May 23, 2019 at 5:47 a.m.

On Sunday's mild afternoon, Stephanie Evans had hoped to take her children to a local park, but a burst of gunfire outside her Northwest Side home ruined those plans, leaving...

Eight of Robert "Bobby" Franks' friends from the Harvard private school he attended acted as pallbearers at the 14-year-old's funeral on May 25, 1924. Franks, the youngest son of millionaire Jacob Franks, was killed by Richard Loeb, 18, and Nathan Leopold Jr., 19, on May 21, 1924. The funeral service was held at the Franks home at 5052 Ellis Ave. and then Bobby's casket, guarded by six motorcycle police, was taken to Rosehill Cemetery in Chicago. At the time of the funeral, the killers were still at large.

1 killed, 8 wounded by gunfire in Chicago, including 5-year-old girl hit in ankle

May 23, 2019 at 5:47 a.m.

A man was killed and eight other people were wounded by gunfire in Chicago Sunday through early Monday, including a 5-year-old girl on her way to a Northwest Side park...

Schurz High School students leave a business in the 3500 block of North Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago on April 17, 2018, after dropping off information on employers' and workers' rights if confronted by federal immigration agents.

With Dreamers’ status uncertain, advocates seek funds for scholarships

May 31, 2019 at 8:02 a.m.

At first Citlali Perez was reluctant to apply for the Obama-era program that shields immigrants who came to the country illegally as children, and now she can't: First-time applications are...

Woman testifies her ex-boss at tanning salon sexually assaulted her in 2009

May 23, 2019 at 5:45 a.m.

A woman testified Monday that her former boss trapped her in his tanning salon on Chicago's West Loop, forced her back to his apartment across the street and sexually assaulted...

Family and friends of 19-month-old Cherish Meyers, who was struck and killed by a CTA bus, hold a vigil in her honor at the location where she was killed in the 7700 block of South South Shore Drive in Chicago.

CTA approves $1.5 million wrongful death suit in death of 19-month-old girl

May 23, 2019 at 5:44 a.m.

The Chicago Transit Authority board on Wednesday approved a $1.5 million settlement for the family of a 19-month-old girl who was fatally struck by a bus in May 2014. Authorities...

Man charged with reckless homicide in West Rogers Park crash

May 31, 2019 at 9:04 p.m.

A West Rogers Park man faces reckless homicide charges after prosecutors say he drunkenly ran a red light while fleeing police, hitting and killing a 61-year-old motorist on Chicago's Far...

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