CITY HALL — Of the 804 new Chicago Police officers hired in 2017, 41 percent are white, according to data provided to aldermen Thursday. Some 35 percent are Hispanic, 17 percent are black and 7 ...

CHICAGO — Ald. Willie Cochran (20th) collapsed at a City Council budget hearing Thursday morning and was given CPR by Ald. Patrick O'Connor (40th) before reviving and being taken out of the Council ...

WILLIAMSBURG — A "surprise shelter" opened over the summer in a former Union Avenue hotel without notification to the community, an indication that the city has quietly backpedaled on a pledge to warn ...

WRIGLEYVILLE — It wasn't so long ago that there were no night games at Wrigley Field. Patrick Lenihan remembers those days fondly. "We were prepared to live with Wrigley Field, but when I moved here, ...

LINCOLN PARK — Lincoln Park Zoo is understandably cagey about animal escapes. Yet everybody loves an escape tale, going back to "The Count of Monte Cristo," "The Prisoner of Zenda" and beyond. And ...

HIGHLAND PARK — The famous glass and steel home that served as the set for Cameron Frye's house in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" is undergoing a historic renovation — and it's not because a bright red ...

Terrell Ortiz, 26, was shot multiple times while waiting in his car on Hart Street, police said. View Full Caption BUSHWICK — A Bloods gang member was shot to death while sitting in his car at ...

LAKEVIEW — For some, going to church is like coming home. And for others, that's true in an even more literal sense. But perhaps no rebirth lends as much scope to the imagination as houses of worship ...

A rendering of the future development planned for Hallets Point, which would include 2,000 apartments — 483 of them affordable — along with a supermarket, school and waterfront esplanade to rise over ...

BROOKLYN — An enraged drunk driver was trying to kill himself and his passenger when he said he was "going to crash this b---h" and mowed down a rollerblader in East New York Saturday, prosecutors ...

LOGAN SQUARE — It's official: One of Logan Square's most defining structures is gone. This week crews finished razing the massive Megamall, 2500 N. Milwaukee Ave., to make way for a $100 million mixed ...

Editor's note: This story was originally published Jan. 18. DOWNTOWN — When violence in Chicago gets national media attention, one refrain is heard again and again: Bring in the National Guard! Before ...