A 2006 Jaguar crashed into the front door and window of a Homewood 7-Eleven store Thursday, injuring the driver and a customer inside the store, police said.

The judge in the Rod Blagojevich case says he will not give jurors a transcript of one of the closing arguments in the former governor’s corruption trial.

A 42-year-old man well-known around Steger for bicycling everywhere is dead after he was struck overnight by a freight train.

The Cook County Human Rights Commission has ruled there is "substantial evidence" former Bremen Community School District 228 Supt. Rich Mitchell was fired almost four years ago because he was gay.

One man is dead and another person critically hurt after a vehicle slammed into a pole on the South Side early Thursday.

Relatives of a Chicago woman who died in retirement in Arizona last month say they are afraid she will never have a proper burial because her ashes are missing in the mail.

Midlothian village officials got a pleasant surprise when bids came back on a badly needed street repaving project.

A teenage boy has died after being shot several times riding a bicycle Wednesday night in Chicago's West Pullman community.

A 37-year-old bald eagle that lived at Brookfield Zoo for more than three decades died Wednesday, zoo officials said.

An 85-year-old man died Tuesday night after the car he was driving crashed into a house in Orland Park.

Homewood has agreed to distribute surplus funds from a special taxing district earlier than usual this year to help Homewood School District 153.

The city of Oak Forest voted Tuesday to outsource its community development department to a private company.

Cook County has launched a new online database of lobbyists and lobbying activity.

A teenage boy is in critical condition after he was shot while riding a bicycle in an apparent drive-by attack in Chicago's Roseland community.

Police say a 3-year-old Chicago boy died after a horse landed on him at a northwestern Indiana horse farm.

A woman has been charged after a 1-year-old child was found to have cocaine and PCP in his system, police said.

A Palos Heights Irish wig maker is suing a dance instructor, accusing him of making negative comments online about the company and its wigs.

Detectives have a number of leads in the case of a Lockport man who was found dead after disappearing from his Orland Park business earlier this month, Joliet Deputy Police Chief Michael Trafton said Tuesday.