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An off-duty Chicago police officer was killed in a single-vehicle crash Sunday morning in Oak Lawn, Chicago police officials said.

As people head back to work following the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, Yellow Line service remains suspended, more than a week after the Nov. 16 crash near the Howard station that injured 38 people and has spurred several lawsuits.

A man was stabbed during a fight on a CTA bus in Bronzeville Friday morning.

The law firm representing victims of the Yellow Line train crash in Rogers Park last week announced two additional lawsuits against the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) on Wednesday. 

During the racketeering trial of former Alderman Ed Burke on Tuesday, jurors were told details of an alleged shakedown involving Burke and a Burger King on Chicago's Southwest Side.

An Illinois man is accused of shooting another man during an argument in Elgin earlier this month. 

A suburban family is grieving the loss of a loved one whose body was temporarily stuck overseas; a Downers Grove restaurant has been inducted into the Hot Dog Hall of Fame; and the city of Chicago is mourning a firefighter who died battling a blaze in Lincoln Park. 

A Chicago police officer was seriously hurt in a car crash early Sunday in Back of the Yards on Chicago's Southwest Side.

New details were released Saturday afternoon about a CTA Yellow Line crash that injured dozens of people this week.