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Several downtown streets were closed Tuesday morning because of ice falling from buildings in the Loop, including the Willis Tower and the John Hancock building

The estate of a man killed in a crash involving a city salt truck and another car last month in the Far South Side Hegewisch neighborhood has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against one of the other drivers.

A man has been charged with robbing a bank in northwest suburban Rolling Meadows and hiring a Lyft car to escape to O’Hare Airport.

A woman was sexually assaulted early Monday in the Humboldt Park neighborhood on the West Side, police said in a community alert.

An ice storm moved into the Chicago area Tuesday morning and made travel dangerous or nearly impossible, the National Weather Service warned.

Service has resumed on the Metra Electric Line and the South Shore Line servicing northwest Indiana after trains were suspended Tuesday morning because of extreme weather conditions.

Mayoral candidates often say they are for the little people, but a new report says it's the rich people who are almost completely funding their campaigns.

The killer of "The Devil in the White City" supposedly killed several people in his South Side "Murder Castle."

Chicago Police say "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett has now turned over his phone records from the early morning hours of the reported attack two weeks ago.

The caller in McHenry County wasn't complaining about how low-scoring the Feb. 3 game was. No, he couldn't believe New England was playing Los Angeles.