An armed masked man trying to rob a hot dog stand apparently didn’t see a uniformed off-duty Chicago police officer at another window and the two exchanged gunfire Monday afternoon on the Far South Side.

A 54-year-old woman who allegedly survived a brutal encounter with accused serial killer Andre Crawford testified today how her hooded attacker savagely raped, stabbed and beat her with a two-by-four before smothering her with a mattress in an abandoned South Side building.

A Northwest Side woman has been charged with sexual assault of a child who is a female relative.

A man was charged with allegedly pushing his 80-year-old wheelchair-bound mother to the ground and robbing her early Friday, police said.

The commander of a south suburban VFW post, who was beaten and robbed while depositing money from a fundraiser on Monday, died Wednesday from injuries suffered in the attack.

An allegedly drunken motorist is in police custody at an Evanston hospital after reportedly stealing a station wagon and plowing into a tree so hard it uprooted and came to rest 12 feet away early Wednesday on the Northwest Side, police said.

A woman accused of beating her 5-year-old daughter to death in 2007 pleaded guilty to the charges Tuesday.

A Park Forest man who died early Sunday after being shot on the South Side was hit by a car following the shooting -- and officials determined the car, not the gunshot, killed him.

A man faces attempted murder charges after allegedly shooting at police while attempting to flee from them on the South Side Friday afternoon.

A man charged in the murder of a Burr Ridge man after a Sunday morning argument at a Lincoln Park jazz club was denied bond Friday as detectives continued to talk to a second man, named as a person of interest in the murder.

An off-duty Chicago Fire Department lieutenant was charged for having a sawed-off shotgun with an unlawful barrel length which he fired at a person breaking the windows of his minivan Monday morning on the South Side, police said.

A 70-year-old West Side man who racked up his 63rd arrest after allegedly stealing three bottles of champagne from a Lake View neighborhood Whole Foods store on Sunday has been charged with felony retail theft.

A woman was hospitalized Sunday morning after her boyfriend allegedly bit off part of her ear during an argument in the Southwest Side Brighton Park neighborhood.

Police arrested two men and two women earlier this week who allegedly ran a lottery ticket scam that targeted elderly Hispanic victims.

With the arrest of a 14-year-old, Chicago Police believe they have now charged the four “main offenders who struck the critical blows” that killed Fenger High School student Derrion Albert, but they’re still looking for three others.

A Cook County judge today ordered two reputed gang members held without bail in the killing of a DePaul University student at a Halloween party on the North Side last weekend.

Ebere Ozonwu says it’s “miraculous” her 22-month-old daughter survived after her stroller was caught in the door of a CTA train.

Jennifer Clark had three children at a young age but tried hard to improve her prospects, continuing her education after high school and working as a home health-care aide.

A man accused of murdering his sister-in-law to hide his rape of the woman weeks earlier and to help his brother collect a $100,000 insurance policy was held without bond Saturday.

A Chicago man plotted the murder of his wife to collect a $100,000 insurance policy and cover up his brother’s rape of his wife several weeks earlier, prosecutors said today.

Murder charges were filed Thursday morning against two Hammond teens charged in the slayings of Ruby and Milton McClendon.

A man was charged early Wednesday with aggravated battery to a child after allegedly biting an infant boy, breaking five ribs and puncturing the baby's liver in the Back of the Yards neighborhood on the South Side Friday, according to police.

When U.S. marshals escorted former fugitive Robert Maday into a Rolling Meadows courtroom, Cook County Judge Thomas Fecarotta welcomed him back, then sentenced him to 13 years in prison for carrying out four robberies.