A man is under police guard at an Evanston hospital Wednesday after barricading himself inside his home in north suburban Wilmette.

They stood before a Cook County judge Tuesday morning in bright yellow jumpsuits, convicted quintuple murderers in a heinous arson- related slaying more than two decades ago.

Ten people were killed and at least 30 others were wounded in shootings and stabbings during a bloody holiday weekend, including four who died late Sunday into early Monday alone.

In Cook County -- sometimes known as "Crook County'' -- we've just hit a dubious milestone.

Exactly one year after Chicago Police Officer Richard M. Francis was fatally shot by a woman after a disturbance on a CTA bus, about 50 police officials returned to the scene to honor his memory.

A man was charged with shooting a 9-year-old boy who was walking with his family when the attack occurred Friday night in the North Side’s Rogers Park neighborhood.

A man was charged Monday night in two sexual assaults -- one early Monday and one in February on the Near Northwest Side, police said.

Misdemeanor charges were filed Monday against a teen who allegedly led police on a chase that ended when he plowed a stolen Mercedes into a CTA bus -- leaving himself and several bus passengers hospitalized -- late Sunday on the South Side.

A man is dead after being shot while driving and ultimately crashing into a fence Saturday night in the West Side's Garfield Park neighborhood.

Chastity Turner felt unsafe Tuesday in her grandmother's South Side neighborhood, unnerved by a daytime shooting spree launched by youths on the block.

They call him an "animal."

FBI agents waited at the foot of wanted businessman David Hernandez's hospital bed as the alleged Ponzi schemer recovered from an apparent drug-induced suicide attempt Monday.

Two men have been charged for a shooting that prompted a 15-mile police chase on the Dan Ryan Expressway early Friday.

Chicago Police arrested three shooting suspects after a 15-mile chase that started on the West Side and ended off the Dan Ryan Expressway in the Far South Side’s Roseland community.

A 16-year-old boy who just finished his sophomore year at Bogan Computer Technical High School was fatally shot Wednesday night while walking near his Ashburn home with his nephew.

A woman has been charged with kidnapping a four-month-old baby girl from the Far West Side on Saturday morning.

A woman died early Tuesday after being shot in west suburban Forest Park, authorities said.

A 14-year-old boy who allegedly pointed a firearm at Chicago police was shot by an officer inside a Pilsen neighborhood elementary school that he and a 13-year-old boy allegedly broke into Monday morning.

A 22-year-old man was shot and killed Sunday morning on the Southwest Side.

A man died one day after being shot by a Chicago Police officer during a Thursday night pursuit in the South Side's Hamilton Park neighborhood.

Gary Poter was a caring, fun-loving father who dispensed heartfelt advice and made his family laugh by dancing in his boxers and writing "hilarious" letters signed "Michael Corleone," his three children tearily recalled in court Thursday.

A 43-year-old Chicago Police officer has been charged with sexually assaulting an underage girl.