An 8-year-old was killed and a 5-year-old boy was wounded after they found a loaded handgun left out by their father, who is now facing charges, according to media reports.

Some residents of rural Illinois and Oregon are hoping to ditch their states and either join neighboring ones or create whole new states.

Proponents say they have more in common with their rural brethren across state lines than they do with urbanites in Chicago and Portland ... which is a long shot. Congress would have to approve ...

Credit: Google Maps RIVER NORTH — A woman was killed and another woman was wounded in a shooting inside a River North hotel ... which houses a hotel and apartment complex, according to the Chicago Sun ...

Chenault Williams, 42, is facing felony charges of first-degree attempted murder, aggravated battery through the discharge of ...

Police said, shortly after 11 a.m., a 26-year-old man was standing in the 4700 block of South Evans Avenue, when three men ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Authorities have released the identity of the a man shot and killed by Chicago police in a townhome on the ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Two young boys were shot, one fatally, on Chicago's South Side Thursday evening, Chicago police said. An ...

“But at the same time, where’s my justice?” Wagner is among more than 19,000 people wounded in shootings in Chicago since 2018. The Chicago Police Department has made arrests in 1,200 of ...

“But at the same time, where’s my justice?” Wagner is among more than 19,000 people wounded in shootings in Chicago since 2018. The Chicago Police Department has made arrests in 1,200 of ...

Languages: English. A man has been shot twice outside Chicago O'Hare International Airport during an "altercation" on Wednesday. Chicago Police Department confirmed this to Newsweek in a statement.

A downtown alderman said he will push to bump the teen curfew in Chicago up to 8 p.m. after a tourist was shot in front of a movie theater over the weekend in his ward. Ald. Brian Hopkins ...