Chicago UPS driver stole $187K in Louis Vuitton packages: police

A Chicago UPS driver has been charged with stealing $187,000 in high-end merchandise from his route and dropping them off at his South Side home, according to Chicago police.

16-year-old girl charged in 4 separate Chicago carjackings

A teenager was charged in connection with four separate armed carjackings and with stealing a car with a young child in the back seat, police said Thursday.

Chicago alderwoman opposes Hard Rock Casino's proposal to build in her ward

“The Hard Rock Casino at One Central would be dropped into an existing, well established community. I have concerns about the density of the Hard Rock Casino proposal…the public safety impacts…the financials… and the infrastructure needs.”

Six cement trucks catch fire overnight in the South Loop

Crews extinguished fires on half a dozen cement trucks early Tuesday in the South Loop neighborhood.

CTA union president says violence on Chicago trains, buses is out of control

Sunday's shooting was the fifth violent incident in the past week on the CTA. Other attacks included stabbings, and beatings on train platforms. On Monday, the operator of a Red Line train was lured by a person who claimed to need help retrieving their phone; that person then pushed the operator on to the tracks.

South Loop residents push back against gambling complex ‘inconsistent with the original vision’ for site

A clout-heavy group of casino developers on Thursday pitched South Loop residents on their plan to build a brand new “neighborhood from the ground up” that they say will create a new “epicenter of Chicago tourism.”

NAMA Show brings latest automation tech to McCormick Place
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Carla Balakgie, president and CEO of the National Automatic Merchandising Association, talks about their show taking place this week at McCormick Place.

Police say man stabbed, robbed at Green Line station; CTA disputes claim

Police said a man was stabbed and robbed Wednesday night at a CTA Green Line station in the South Loop but the transit agency said there is no video evidence supporting that the attack happened on their property.

Woman shot while sitting in car in the South Loop

A woman was shot while sitting in her car Thursday night in Chicago's South Loop neighborhood.

Gun used in South Loop barbershop killing tied to U.S. soldiers accused of trafficking weapons

A handgun used in the South Loop killing of a friend of well-known rapper G Herbo was among a cache of weapons a trio of U.S. soldiers at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, conspired to sell in Chicago.