A man and a teenage boy from Chicago have been charged with retail theft and are accused of ripping six smartphones out of displays Thursday night at the AT&T store in Batavia. Police said they were called at 6:41 p.m. after the two suspects asked e...

One of three Chicago residents charged with robbing gas stations in Schaumburg and Des Plaines and a doughnut shop in Glenview pleaded guilty Thursday to one of the robberies. Ahmed Fathi, 27, pleaded guilty to the March 2017 armed robbery of a gas...

Funny Tammy Laugh along with comedian Tammy Pescatelli (“Last Comic Standing,” “Fashion Police”) when she returns for a run of standup shows starting Thursday at the Improv Comedy Showcase at Woodfield Mall, 5 Woodfield Road, Schaumburg. $22 plus a ...

A Chicago man pleaded guilty Monday to charges he opened fire on two people driving in a nearby vehicle in 2017 in Antioch Township. Derrius L. Crenshaw, 24, of the 4700 block of South King Drive, was sentenced to 21 months in prison after pleading...

The number of people dying in traffic crashes in Illinois is "going in the wrong direction," said Transportation Secretary Randy Blankenhorn, who intends to convene a safety summit to address the problem. In 2016, 1,078 pedestrians, cyclists and peo...

After seeing a man get into his car and drive off with his daughter in the back seat, Mark Beasanski will never again leave the keys in the ignition while pumping gas. In fact, he'll make sure to lock the car at all times, he said. “I started punchi...

A 20-year-old Chicago man has been charged with hijacking a vehicle with an 11-year-old girl inside on Aurora's far east side, police said Saturday. The girl jumped from the vehicle as it accelerated through a gas station parking lot and was not hu...

A 27-year-old West Chicago man was bitten by a police dog and arrested after authorities say he ran into a random home on Aurora's near southeast side and hid under a bed when police tried to arrest him for driving a stolen vehicle. Guillermo M. Vel...

Joe Maddon does not care what you think. Really, he doesn't care whether you like his opinions on just about anything. Some of it might be the generational wealth handed to him by Tom Ricketts and Theo Epstein, but more likely it's his personal back...