A death investigation is underway to determine if the body belongs a prominent trans activist reported missing from Evanston last week.
Fire officials said the homeowner was found unresponsive at the bottom of the basement stairs of his burning house. (Updated)
A group of at least six burglars twice returned to the Autobarn Collection in Evanston to steal more cars after breaking in Monday morning.
A 62-year-old Rogers Park resident with a previous sex assault conviction has been charged with aggravated criminal sexual abuse of a child.
No residents were hurt in Monday afternoon's blaze, but one firefighter suffered a minor injury.
After testifying against Wyndham Lathem in his murder trial last year, Andrew Warren got the 45-year sentence recommended in his plea deal.
Police said a 911 caller suffering from dementia claimed her son had taken multiple hostages at knifepoint.
Julius Francellno and Malik Caswell pleaded guilty to reduced charges — both were charged with murder in the 2018 killing of Yakez Semark.
Wyndham Lathem, a former associate professor of microbiology and immunology at Northwestern University, was sentenced to 53 years in prison.
The FBI said a gunman in a tan fedora, trench coat and scarf struck a Bank of America shortly before noon Wednesday.
An armed robber threatened to cut off the finger of a CTA Purple Line patron last week, prosecutors said.
Fire officials said 11 people needed treatment after exposure to carbon monoxide levels of more than 500 parts per million.
A Chicago man with an arrest warrant has been charged with two misdemeanor counts of battery for what a judge described as "sexual attacks."
The 19-year-old is also charged with four counts of attempted murder. Detectives believe he was the driver in last month's mass shooting.
Evanston police said the shooting was "unrelated" to an earlier incident that left one teen dead and four others wounded.
"This kind of event is unacceptable to every person in this community," Mayor Daniel Biss said of Sunday's mass shooting of five teenagers.
A 17-year-old boy died after five people were shot Sunday night in Evanston, police said.
Justin Blake, uncle of the man shot and paralyzed by a Kenosha police officer last year, was pulled over Saturday after a demonstration.
Several units were damaged in the Central Street blaze, fire officials said.
Northwestern University officials declined to say if anyone had been arrested or charged with a crime.
Denise Grevas agreed to pay back nearly $287,000 she profited from insider information about a pending acquisition by her husband's firm.
An 18-year-old man suggested he was armed, telling a group of people, 'Don't make me hurt you,' prosecutors said.
Carjackers who implied they had guns — but did not brandish them — robbed two Evanston residents outside their homes within 24 hours.
Federal prosecutors won't charge Officer Rusten Sheskey, whose bullets left Blake paralyzed from the waist down last August.
The former Northwestern University microbiologist was found guilty of the first-degree murder of 26-year-old Trenton Cornell-Duranleau.
Evanston police and fire crews were dispatched to the Hilton Orrington Wednesday morning for a report that a woman had been stabbed.
Police said an officer saw two cars shooting at each other on Irving Park Road and gave chase before the fatal crash. No one is in custody.
There are six registered sex offenders in town who are listed as "non-compliant," four of whom are homeless, according to state police.
Firefighters were able to contain the blaze to the unit where it started, fire officials said.
No one is in custody. Police are investigating whether anyone else was involved.
He's accused of conspiring with an Oxford University employee to kill boyfriend Trenton James Cornell-Duranleau, 26.
Fraternity events have been suspended at the Evanston campus after multiple reports of drugged victims were made over the weekend.
At least eight local restaurants have received letters filled with racial slurs and falsely signed by judges at the Skokie courthouse.
After a seven-hour search at the scene of an earlier water rescue, fire crews found the body of a West Rogers Park man.
Alejandro Lopez. 19, has been charged with murder in the death of Stanley Butler III, but police are still searching for several suspects.
Evanston police said multiple shooters fled the area before a related scene unfolded at the Skokie Swift station.
An Evanston man faces three counts of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon after officers pulled him over Tuesday evening on Howard Street.
Coast Guard and fire crews got a report of about two dozen people in the water Tuesday evening.
One man spent more than six and a half hours in the lake after his kayak filled with water while watching Saturday's air show.
Authorities said she bought over 30,000 shares in a firm after learning her husband's Deerfield-based employer was about to purchase it.