Before the sweat, before the bench press, before the sauna, before the shower, before placing my hand around a man, inside a man, around his throat so desperate for my hand, I take off my ring. While ...

For nearly 60 years, efforts to revitalize Market East relied upon a bet: “If we build it, they will come.” This gamble made ...

Chicago was an obvious draw for poor, southern African-Americans. Up the Mississippi from Memphis, the rapidly expanding metropolis offered an escape from the cotton plantations of the South.

Brandon Z. Miller, 25, presided over a crew that bought more than 100 guns, some used in a murderous South Side street war, ...

A man between the ages of 35 and 45 was fatally shot in a drive-by shooting on the city’s Far South Side, with no one currently in custody.

CHICAGO (CBS) — A 12-year-old girl is dead after a shooting inside a Calumet Heights home on Sunday night. Just before 8:30 p.m., Chicago police said officers responded to a home in the 9200 block of ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Two women were wounded in a shooting on the South Side Friday morning, Chicago police said. The shooting took place at about 4:45 a.m. 900-block of East 45th Street.

Islamic and Chicago history. The founding imam, Mikal Ramadan, was unable to attend the tour, but said later that the mosque has been an important site as Black Muslims on the South Side deepened ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Two women were wounded in a shooting on the South Side Friday morning, Chicago police said. The shooting took place at about 4:45 a.m. 900-block of East 45th Street. Police said ...

Firefighters were able to revive several cats using oxygen masks for pets, but some pets pulled out of the fire died from ...

CHICAGO — A Park Forest Woman was accused of fatally shooting a man on the city’s South Side last year has been extradited to Chicago after authorities tracked her down in North Carolina.