Chicago

The 31-year-old drill rapper, FBG Cash was reportedly shot and killed in Chicago on Friday.

A mother in Chicago has been charged with murdering her daughter after she allegedly smothered her child's face with a plastic bag to kill her.

A woman who was abducted, chained and raped in an abandoned house in Chicago was found and rescued by a community leader who heard her cries for help.

Deonlashawn Simmons, a 36-year-old Chicago man, was sentenced to 105 years in prison in connection with the Sept. 2019 killing of Takaylah Tribitt.

An Illinois man has been accused of hiding the death of his mother and sister before proceeding to bury their bodies in the backyard of the family’s dilapidated suburban Chicago home.

JoAnn Cunningham, a Chicago mother who was previously convicted of killing her son, filed a petition for relief on Friday after claiming that she believed her son was possessed by a demon when she killed him.

Local trans activist Elise Malary was found dead on Saturday in Lake Michigan over a week after she first went missing in the area.

An unidentified man in Chicago was arrested on Tuesday after confessing murder to a random bystander and then getting into a tense standoff with police authorities.

A 15-year-old boy has been reported dead after he was mercilessly shot 24 times while he was out buying snacks near a Chicago gas station on Saturday, Feb. 12. 

An Illinois state trooper allegedly shot and murdered his wife who was intending to leave him before killing himself earlier this week in an apparent murder-suicide.

Conjoined twins Addison and Lilianna Altobelli are now successfully thriving back home in Chicago with their parents 3 months after their separation surgery last year.

Chicago teacher Marisa Fotieo found herself going viral on TikTok after she found out midflight to Iceland on Monday that she tested positive for COVID-19, forcing her to isolate herself in the plane's bathroom.

A Goodwill store in Chicago was the subject of a bomb scare after an inactive hand grenade was found in its donation box on Saturday, causing the store to be evacuated and two hours of business to be lost.

The teen killer of 15-year-old Elias Valdez has been slapped with three years' probation in exchange for pleading guilty to the victim's murder, spurring criticism of special treatment because of the race of the defendant.

A Chicago father was reportedly beaten to death with unidentified blunt objects in front of his young daughter while hanging Christmas lights outside his home, authorities said.

"Empire" actor Jussie Smollett has been found guilty of disorderly conduct on Thursday after being accused of allegedly faking a racist hate crime against himself in an effort to boost his salary.

Missing United Airlines executive Jacob Cefolia's body was found in a Chicago forest preserve on Friday after an extensive, yearlong search yielded no results.

Gun violence in Chicago continues to be a problem and the latest casualty is an 18-year-old girl who was reportedly a talented artist.

A Chicago mother allegedly shot her 12-year-old son to death after a digital storage disk card from her car was found missing.

A firebug and arsonist has been arrested on Thursday after admitting to setting a residential building on fire with a torch lighter.

As Ivermectin poisoning increases across the board in the United States, researchers in Nigeria have found that ivermectin causes sterilization in the men who take it.

A Chicago woman reportedly made false bomb threats at airport staff after she missed her flight at Fort Lauderdale in Florida on Monday, Sept. 6.

R. Kelly has found himself in further scrutiny as his Brooklyn court trial focuses on his illegal 1994 marriage to singer Aaliyah, who was underage at the time, with the minister that oversaw the ceremony testifying as to what happened.

Drake fans vandalized Kanye West's home as the lead-up to the records "Donda" and "Certified Lover Boy" have caused their beef to be reignited.

Heather Mack, a woman put to prison in Bali, Indonesia for the murder of her mother Sheila von Wiese-Mack, is being released early on good behavior.

The teen acquaintance of a 15-year-old sex abuse victim has been arrested along with the 40-year-old man accused of her rape following the grim find of the girl's corpse in an alley near Chicago on Aug. 7. 

A man reportedly attacked an off-duty police officer and bit his friend's nipples completely off in a heated road rage incident in Chicago.

Three unnamed men reportedly got into a fight and were injured on Sunday because of fake Lollapalooza tickets that were sold by one of the injured men.

A 28-year-old man claims that he shot at three law enforcers after mistaking them as members of a rival gang. If convicted, he could face up to 20 years in prison for one count of using a dangerous and deadly weapon to assault a special agent from the ATF.

A Chicago man violently mauled a Fernwood pastor and his wife over the weekend in a horrific confrontation.