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Wednesday evening she called Demarion and told him he needed to come home. "He said, 'I know, I know. I love you, mom.'" Minutes later, he was shot in the head and killed.

Police in west suburban Aurora have released dashcam video that shows three family members allegedly attacking, beating and strangling a police officer during a traffic stop last month.

"I'm getting out of here, today. I have to leave Chicago," said the baby's mother Tyeshia Banks. "I love this city, but I can't stay anymore."

Two teenagers have been charged in connection with the killing of a 73-year-old Marine veteran who was beaten to death during an attempted carjacking in Hyde Park.

“If you want the car, let him get out. You can get another car, I can’t get another dad,” said Keith Cooper's daughter, Keinica.

Keegan Casteel has been accused by Chicago’s mayor and top cop of possibly planning a mass attack on Navy Pier crowds from the window of his hotel room over the Fourth of July weekend. But police and court filings so far detail no such plans.

Chicago's top cop David Brown is using the case of a rapper fatally shot over the weekend outside Cook County Jail as a reason to push for keeping violent offenders behind bars.

A rapper who goes by the name KTS Dre was killed when he was shot dozens of times on Saturday night right after he was released from the Cook County Jail in Chicago.

The Iowa man accused of bringing guns and ammunition into a downtown Chicago hotel over the Fourth of July weekend bonded out of jail Wednesday, and then proposed to a woman.

A man allegedly fatally shot a woman and wounded two other men over the weekend in Austin before being shot by a concealed-carry holder, police said.

There was another brazen attack on law enforcement in Chicago on Wednesday.

President Joe Biden pitched his proposed investments in families and education at a Crystal Lake, Illinois community college on Wednesday, telling residents of the swing district that what’s good for families is also good for the economy.

Starting this fall, free condoms will be available at Chicago Public Schools with students fifth grade or older.

The 2021 graduation season has been a busy one for Chicago mom Alisa Perry Johnson. All three of her children graduated this year -- and so did Perry Johnson herself.

A 20-year-old University of Chicago student shot while sitting on a Green Line train has died after days in the hospital.

The Chicago Fire Department said Sunday that they had just treated a teenager who is going to lose a hand due to a fireworks injury.

Chicago police officers on Monday surprised a group of children with a new basketball hoop – after seeing them playing instead with a milk crate – and even stuck around to shoot hoops in the neighborhood.

Video shared widely on social media shows a group of men swarming the car, then pulling out Yasmin Perez and beating her. Gyovanny Arzuaga, who was shot "execution-style," died that night.

The attack is the third mass shooting in Chicago in little over a week and came at the end of a burst of violence that saw more than 25 people shot across the city in 10 hours.