John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County

When the shooting stopped in Lawndale late Friday night, three people lay on the ground with gunshot wounds outside a family prom party on Kolin Avenue. During the shooting, which started near Roosevelt Road and Kolin about 11:25 p.m., Kim Davis, 36,...

A teenage boy and two men were killed in three separate shootings Friday night and Saturday morning in Chicago, according to authorities. At least eight others were also shot overnight on the South, West and Northwest Sides. The first fatal shooting...

Four people were injured, at least one critically, when the car they were in struck a pole in an alcohol-related crash in the Avondale neighborhood early Friday morning, police said. The crash happened about 2:50 a.m. near the intersection of Kedzie and...

Two men were killed and at least 11 people were wounded -- one of them by police -- in shootings from Tuesday afternoon through Wednesday morning across Chicago, police said. One of the fatal shootings occurred around 12:40 a.m. when a gunman emerged...

While Cal Tobin was an architect by trade, he also became the figurative architect for Highland Park's downtown — helping reinvent and reimagine the city's most crucial business district. Tobin, who spent 15 years on the City Council until 1991,...

A 19-year-old man in a restaurant and a 27-year-old man walking down the sidewalk were killed late Monday in separate shootings on the South Side, authorities said. In the Grand Crossing neighborhood, a man died after being shot at a Harold's Chicken...

The great-nephew of a prominent Englewood community activist was fatally shot as he was driving from his great-grandmother's home Sunday afternoon in the Englewood neighborhood, according to family and police. Ronald A. Baskin, 21, of south suburban...

On a typical June day last year, 3-year-old Jolan Jackson was sitting at the dining room table in his booster chair waiting for his meal. Having just boiled a cup of water in the microwave, Jolan's teenage sister poured the hot liquid into a Cup...

One man was killed and another wounded in South Side shootings overnight, authorities said. A man in his 20s was shot in the head and body near 76th Street and South Shore Drive in the South Shore neighborhood about 3:30 a.m. Sunday. He died at the...

At least four people were wounded in several shootings Saturday, including a man who walked into a police station with a gunshot wound, officials said. In the first shooting today, a 24-year-old man walked into the Englewood district police station on...

Centegra Hospital in McHenry charged $36,000 for implanting a permanent pacemaker. Less than 30 miles away, Vista Medical Center East in Waukegan charged more than $165,000 for the same procedure. To treat a case of simple pneumonia, meanwhile, John H....

Just before Ebony Ambrose went to bed about 10 p.m. Tuesday, her son Kevin Ambrose asked her if she had made the spinach gnocchi and apple cider pork that she had planned for dinner. Kevin Ambrose, 19, was hanging out with a friend and had not eaten with...