Police: Woman in custody after stealing ambulance
Authorities arrested a woman who is accused of stealing an ambulance Tuesday morning from the University of Illinois at Chicago Hospital. The woman stole a MedEx ambulance about 6:45 a.m....
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Officials investigate sexual assault reported at Curie High School
Chicago police are investigating sexual assault allegations at a high school on the Southwest Side. The assault happened around 3 p.m. Friday inside a classroom at Curie High School, according...
6 hospitalized after crash in western suburbs
Six people were hospitalized after a crash near the border of River Forest and Melrose Park in the western suburbs early Tuesday, officials said.The River Forest Fire Department responded to...
6 injured, including firefighter and young boys, in Kankakee fire
Two young boys were critically injured and 22 people were displaced after a fire in suburban Kankakee early Wednesday, officials said. The blaze broke out just before 2 a.m. in...
Radio personality Doug Banks dies
Longtime Chicago radio personality Doug Banks has died. He was 57.Banks started at WBMX Chicago (now V103), where he took the morning show from a 1.8 share to a 5.6,...
1 seriously hurt after car crashes into Walgreens on Southwest Side
A person was seriously injured when a car crashed into a Walgreens in the Garfield Ridge neighborhood on the Southwest Side, authorities said. A silver Acura slammed into the store...
Crash on I-290 injures 3, including 2 Cook County sheriff’s officers
Two Cook County sheriff's officers were injured and another person was hurt in a three-vehicle crash on the Eisenhower Expressway near west suburban Forest Park on Thursday evening, according to...
Chicago weather: What goes up must come down
Temperatures shot up 46 degrees and then plunged back down over a 24-hour period from Sunday to Monday.The low Sunday morning was 26 degrees. By the afternoon, temperatures had reached...
Winter weather advisory for Wednesday night, Thursday morning rush
The National Weather Service has issued a winter weather advisory for a storm that could drop as much as 4 inches of snow in some areas by Thursday morning. The...
Snow slows, but windy conditions snarl afternoon commute
Snow fell throughout the Chicago area Tuesday afternoon, with heavier snow moving east of Chicago into northwest Indiana midafternoon, as gusty winds and some icy roads made for hazardous driving....