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Chicago Police arrested and charged a convicted felon with a weapons violation after he fled the scene following a traffic stop early Friday morning in the Lincoln Park neighborhood on the Near North side.

Brian Ruiz faces felony charges in a brutal attack on Chicago firefighter Matt Jones in the Lincoln Park neighborhood.

Share + Aug 21, 2009 6:11 pm US/Central A man was charged late Thursday in the violent attack on a rookie firefighter on a fashionable stretch of Halsted Street in the Lincoln Park neighborhood.

Bond was set for a Northwest Side man charged with a hate crime after allegedly using a racial epithet while pushing and elbowing a man at a Gold Coast bus stop Wednesday night on the Near North Side.

Chicago area gas prices are dancing closer to $3 a gallon after bottoming out last December at almost half that price.

Apr 29, 2009 2:27 pm US/Central The Whole Foods store at 1000 W. North Ave. will soon close and be replaced with a new store at Sheffield and Kingsbury, the third largest in the world.

The Gold Coast is a neighborhood of contrasts. It is a tiny, quiet neighborhood of historic brownstones intermingled with high-rises nestled along Lake Shore Drive on the Near North Side .