Using 2013 violent crime statistics, Law Street Media’s second annual analysis ranks states and cities from most to least dangerous.
Christopher Anderson was shot by police on Nov. 3. The state's attorney says the shooting was justified.
Illinois State Police Accepting Applications for New Recruits
Judge denies her lawyer's motion Wednesday.
Jilted and angry, Joseph Spitalli set upon his ex and her new boyfriend outside her Darien apartment in 2012, authorities said.
Police are investigating a shooting that happened Monday morning in the 700 block of Dobson Street.
A lawsuit filed by a Northwestern University philosophy claims a student's accusations over a 2012 incident are false.
Lawsuit names Cook County sheriff and two guards as defendants.
The fifth suspect, a 17-year-old, is suspected of being the gunman who killed Maxwell Gadau and left his friend hospitalized.
Maxwell Gadau was shot to death and a 17-year-old girl hospitalized in the Sept. 28 shooting. Charged are 3 Chicago teens and 1 from Skokie.
The other victim, a teenage girl, is in critical condition after the Sunday night shooting on Kedvale.
He went missing at Old Orchard Mall.
Swatting a YouTube celeb, communion juice thievery and a punch-drunk flirter this week in the annals of Chicagoland crime-n-shame.
Homeless man steals a Corvette, a mama protects her jailbird son and the peek-from-behind-the-curtain crew this week in crime-n-shame.
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Evanston police executed a search warrant on Hull St. and arrested the man with nearly 50 grams of marijuana and the weapon, police said.
Sheriff will focus on seat belt violators through Labor Day, Sept. 1.
Tiny jail towels, iPad thief smiles, cigarette ripoff and a hard-to-swallow milk shake in the latest annals of Patch Chicago crime-n-shame.
The Skokie Police Explorers, Post 300, host their annual car wash fundraiser on Saturday, August 2, 2014 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
A woman locks up her dog in filth, a suspicious texter and a man with red fingernails this week in the annals of PatchChicago crime-n-shame.
The victim, who was from Chicago, was shot on McCormick Boulevard just before 10 a.m.
The shooting occurred just before 10 a.m. at McCormick and Oakton in Skokie.
Police say the man had a loaded handgun and mask that he used to try to rob an Emerson Street shop.
He went missing Tuesday.
The man had someone take his picture while making the sign in front of the Skokie museum.
An Evanston man was arrested after the incident in Skokie on robbery and drug charges.
Homes and vehicles have been hit in a number of nearby communities. Here's how to keep yourself safe.
The 24-year-old Skokie man was arrested in Highland Park after the person he was communicating with online turned out to be a police investigator and not a teenage girl, police said.
A Skokie gas station and Lincolnwood Dunkin Donuts were among the businesses robbed at gunpoint.
Every Monday Patch highlights one of Cook County’s most wanted fugitives.
The driver caused at least three crashes, police say, one of which seriously injured a biker.
The man refused to cooperate with police in their investigation and police are asking the public for help.
Tripped up by a police sting, former Rush University Medical Center doc could be headed to federal prison for 9 to 11 years.
Also in this week's OMG PD, a car is towed for owing thousands in parking tickets and a cabbie gets battered by his fare.
Also in this week's OMG PD, a man is arrested for screaming at a snowplow driver.
A look at weird crime in the Chicago area.
Mom, Dad and daughter took toys and other items from stores in Texas and Louisiana using really big pockets, says U.S. attorney.
Also in this week's OMG PD, a woman sues saying her hair care product failed to deliver and a man is arrested for screaming profanities in his apartment.