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.
No residents were injured. The firefighter was treated and released from a local hospital.
Darius Morales was convicted of possessing a gun officers found after an SUV crashed in an Evanston front yard while fleeing police in 2019.
Over the course of the operation, 25 men approached members of the team and solicited sex in exchange for money.
A disoriented driver drove onto a sidewalk after making a wrong turn on Davis Street and injured two people as they ate lunch, police said.
A car came crashing through the front window of a home minutes after its residents left, fire officials said.
While conducting the check, investigators observed an unloaded firearm magazine and rounds of 9 mm ammunition in Morris’ bedroom.
After pleading guilty to reduced charges, Nicholas Nelson will avoid state prison but spend the next decade as a registered sex offender.
Someone broke out windows before tossing some kind of explosive into a home on Brown Avenue late Tuesday night, authorities believe.
The man facing murder charges in a May 2020 drive-by shooting first brandished a crowbar during a brawl in the street, authorities said.
Police said a Chicago man who attacked a Northwestern University student and attempted to remove her pants was later arrested in Glencoe.
Nine strongarm robberies in Evanston and Rogers Park over two days are linked to a group of three or four teenagers, police said.
Authorities said a 14-year-old was found dead on the tracks east of Dodge Avenue early Friday morning.
No one was injured in the blaze Wednesday evening on Washington Street.
No one is in custody in connection with the fatal shootings of two men on the front porch of an Evanston home.
A gunman remains at large after three men were found shot on Hovland Court Friday, police said.
Evanston firefighters battled blazes Friday at a single-family home and an apartment building.
Damia Smith, a Morgan Park High School student, is the fifth victim of the deadly Jan. 9 shooting spree to die.
Bodycam and dashboard videos show officers open fire on a suspected spree shooter on Jan. 9.
A neighbor found three men in their home bound by their hands and feet Sunday night, police said.
Known as "Chacha" to her grandchildren, Marta Torres "dedicated her life to teaching" before she was fatally shot in an Evanston restaurant.
Fire crews evacuated the woman to safety and successfully resuscitated her before rushing her to an area hospital, fire officials said.
The former Evanston resident said he was prepared to surrender — and wasn't worried — before a Kenosha officer opened fire, paralyzing him.
A graduate student, security guard and a bystander in a convenience store who had just moved back to Chicago were all shot dead Saturday.
"If not for the brave actions of Evanston and Chicago police, many more innocent lives would have been lost," Mayor Hagerty wrote Sunday.
Police said Jason Nightengale shot seven people Saturday, killing at least 3, before officers shot him dead in Evanston.
Everyone managed to evacuate before a multi-unit fire consumed a garden apartment Wednesday morning in Evanston, officials said.
Prosecutors said Eric Gunn, 21, shot Esteban Luvianos in the head during a drug deal in March.
The 34-year-old Indiana man has been charged with first-degree murder in the fatal beating of 71-year-old Evanston resident Daniel Murray.
A Indiana man is being held without bail in connection with the homicide of Daniel Murray, 71, who died Friday after a Nov. 10 assault.
Consumers in Evanston can take certain steps to lessen the chance of falling victim to a scam.
Police say a 61-year-old Evanston man fired two shots toward an acquaintance during an argument.