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.
Police said he likely left to go to a friend's house.
Police took a man into custody Tuesday afternoon after he barricaded himself in a home on Dodge Avenue.
A Highland Park man and a pair of Evanston residents were among those found "cold and wet, but uninjured" Sunday evening.
Protesters threw bricks and lit fireworks at police officers, injuring one, according to the Evanston Police Department.
Firefighters said the cause of the blaze remains under investigation.
Prosecutors say a man fleeing gunfire from a group of gang members murdered the 20-year-old Glenview resident near the CTA Red Line in July.
Six of the more than two dozen registered sex offenders in Evanston are listed as "non-compliant" with state police requirements.
Sexual assault and home invasion charges were dropped after he admitted trespassing in a plea deal that could see him released next month.
An ETHS senior was fatally shot in an alley north of Devon Avenue early Sunday morning, according to police and school officials.