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The state’s child-welfare agency has taken custody of a 3-year-old after Will County authorities found guns – including one stored inside a child-safety seat -- in a vehicle driven by a Carbondale woman.

An Elmwood Park man faces a murder charge after he allegedly stabbed a coworker Sunday during an argument in a Portage Park restaurant.

An unmarked Robbins police squad car stolen Wednesday outside a McDonald’s in south suburban Midlothian may have been involved in a crash on the Bishop Ford Freeway.

On average one in eight women in the U.S. will face a breast cancer diagnosis in her lifetime. It remains the most common cancer diagnosed in women worldwide, but health experts say more and women are tackling and surviving the disease.

After six years without a grocery store, Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood finally has one. Local Market opened Wednesday in a place that had previosly been a Dominicks.

A recently fired temporary employee was arrested Wednesday morning after he allegedly threatened to shoot a security guard at his former workplace in west suburban Batavia.

A person was injured Wednesday in a rollover crash on the Dan Ryan Expressway near the Skyway.

Two men escaped a pickup truck that slid on ice Wednesday morning into Lake Michigan on the Near North Side.

Three men are in custody after shots were fired at police Wednesday during a traffic stop in South Shore on the South Side.

A woman was killed, and two others hospitalized Tuesday after an apartment fire in Brainerd on the South Side, according to Chicago police.