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A South Side teen accused of shooting at Chicago police officers was ordered held without bail Saturday.

Weis calls detective the 'Bernie Madoff' of the sergeants union; cash allegedly used for Vegas trips, dinners Comments November 21, 2009 The president of the Chicago Police Sergeants' Association was charged Friday with using fellow sergeants' union dues as a personal piggy bank, allegedly stealing more than $600,000 and spending it on a home, ...

Authorities have closed the northbound express lanes of Chicago's Dan Ryan Expressway south of downtown after a seven-car crash.

Two men have been charged for a shooting in the Northwest Side's Hermosa neighborhood that left a woman critically injured early Thursday.

As news spread that talk show icon Oprah Winfrey planned to end her program in 2011, Chicagoans debated what the talk show queen's absence would mean to the city that has been her home since 1983.

Winfrey told the audience that she loved "The OprahA Winfrey Show," that it had been her life and that she knew when it was time to say goodbye.

Police in Chicago said three men were arrested in two armed robbery cases involving postings on the Web site Craigslist.

They set up a cocaine "command and control" center in Chicago, according to U.S. drug agents, to distribute multi-thousand kilo quantities for one of Mexico's most notorious cartels.

Share + Nov 19, 2009 8:56 pm US/Central Reporting Mike Parker 1 of 1 Mayor Daley had words of admiration for Oprah Winfrey on Thursday and suggested unfair criticism about her closure of Michigan Avenue may have expedited her departure from Chicago.

Collaboration and partnership between China and the United Sates are absolutely critical to a meaningful, substantive and programmatic climate solution, a U.S. environment expert has said.

A man has been charged with the attempted murder of an off-duty Chicago police officer after a shootout outside a daycare center where the officer was trying to pick up his daughter in March of 2008 in the Calumet Heights neighborhood on the Far South Side.

Caryn Rousseau Chicago - The Associated Press Published on Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009 6:53PM EST Last updated on Thursday, Nov.

Mayor Richard Daley stormed out of a press conference Wednesday over questions concerning the death of Michael Scott.

A 17-year-old boy was shot and killed this afternoon in the South Chicago neighborhood as he was walking back to his home after school, his mother said.

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Community activists Melvin Bailey, left, Kublai Toure, and Harold Davis, right, speak about the suicide ruling in the death of Chicago Public School Board President Michael Scott during a news conference at Holy Starlight M.B. Church in Chicago, Wednesday, Nov.

Chalk-up another major trade show leaving McCormick Place, the second one to announce it's doing so within a week saying it's too expensive to hold a show here.

Playboy will return to its Chicago roots when it joins top nightlife promoters Global Adrenaline for a New Year's Eve celebration at the historic Hilton Chicago.

Share + Nov 18, 2009 5:33 pm US/Central Chicago police say they have found no evidence that Chicago Board of Education President Michael Scott was the victim of a homicide.

An allegedly drunken motorist from Niles is in police custody at an Evanston hospital after reportedly stealing a station wagon and plowing into a tree so hard it uprooted and came to rest 12 feet away early Wednesday in Chicago, police said.