Maryland and the city of Baltimore sued Glock on Wednesday, seeking to force one of the country's largest gun sellers to take steps to prevent owners from modifying its products into automatic weapons ...

An Illinois man is facing a manslaughter charge in the death of his pregnant girlfriend after he claimed he shot her after ...

Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. was with his cousin and best friend Emmett Till the night he was murdered and is still haunted by the ...

Definitively convicting rapists is only possible thanks to one woman's efforts to create a forensic chain of evidence. A new book explores the rape kit and how we still fail survivors ...

R. Kelly's racketeering and sex trafficking convictions, along with a 30-year prison sentence, were upheld Wednesday by a ...

Jurors delivered a split verdict against former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan. Here's what he was convicted, and acquitted, of.

CHILD PORNOGRAPHY: Leonard R. Hunter, 27, Chicago, was arrested Feb. 11 on a warrant charging him with possessing child pornography, police said. Leonard had 68 files containing child pornography ...

Illinois authorities have announced the cause of death for George Levin, who was found dead in the basement where he lived in ...

A Chicago man was charged with attempted murder in connection with a shooting Sunday morning in the Chinatown neighborhood.

Information about homicides is released daily by the city of Chicago. The release of homicide victims’ names is delayed by ...

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 ...

A woman has been charged with murder in the death of an infant boy last year on the city's West Side, Chicago police said.