Crime and Public Safety

Two people are hospitalized after an armed suspect opened fire inside a Dodge car dealership on Chicago's South Side, police said.

A Chicago man who served nearly 30 years in prison was released on Thursday after having his conviction in a 1996 murder vacated.

The father of a Florida teen accused of causing a deadly crash in 2023 has been charged with several counts of manslaughter related to that crash, according to court records.

Police are looking for a man accused of sexually assaulting students on Chicago college campuses.

A Bloomingdale man previously released ahead of trial on stolen vehicle charges is now back in custody for the same crime after a judge revoked his pre-trial release, prosecutors said.

A St. Charles man accused of robbing a suburban Dollar Store and who has seven active failure to appear warrants was denied pre-trial release.

Kash Patel, a fierce Trump loyalist, will be the next director of the FBI, an agency he has repeatedly criticized.

The man accused in the Highland Park parade shooting appeared in court Thursday as the judge ruled on who can attend the trial.

A 17-year-old boy was charged in connection with a shooting that left a 15-year-old boy seriously wounded last September in the West Englewood neighborhood.

An Illinois auto shop owner was arrested this week for allegedly selling drugs out of his business.

Vance Day was accused of refusing to marry same-sex couples, hanging a picture of Hitler on a courthouse wall and intimidating a soccer referee, among other allegations.

Anne Marie Hochhalter, who was shot and paralyzed in the Columbine High School mass shooting in 1999, died on Sunday of natural causes, Fox News Digital has learned. She was 43. 

An expressway police chase ended with a Chicago police officer accidentally firing their gun while arresting three suspects Thursday morning in the Austin neighborhood.

A suburban man was arrested this week after allegedly sending explicit photos and messages to undercover officers posing as a teenager.

A high-risk 16-year-old girl and her 2-month-old son who were reported missing from Chicago last February have been located.