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Employees at prominent African-American cemetery in Chicago are now being charged with stripping graves to resell plots and dumping disinterred coffins in a mass site at the back of the cemetery.

DeKALB – A DeKalb man has been charged with attempted first-degree murder after police say he shot at a Chicago police officer while in the city this weekend.

A man accused of pushing his elderly mother to the ground at her South Side home ultimately leading to her death was ordered held on $800,000 bond Saturday.

Share + Jul 11, 2009 12:36 pm US/Central Mom-to-be in Critical Condition A 19-year-old pregnant woman remained in critical condition Saturday after she was shot in the back of the head while driving in the East Chicago neighborhood Friday night.

Mayor Daley unveiled a batch of "incremental'' Chicago Public Schools test score gains Wednesday while dumping on recent claims that school progress under his watch has been exaggerated.

A slide in metals and energy prices continued Wednesday amid growing anxiety about the potential for a quick and robust economic recovery.

Donetta Newman, left, and Tiffany Robinson, both of Alsip, talk to reporters about problems the Burr Oak Cemetery.

Chicago Police captured three of four occupants of a vehicle that fatally ran over a pedestrian during a hit-and-run incident late Wednesday in west suburban Cicero.

Sen. Roland Burris will announce Friday that he will not seek election to a full term in 2010, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. Burris' office issued a press release Thursday evening saying the Senator would make a 'major announcement' Friday during a scheduled speech at the Chicago South Loop Hotel.

Share + Jul 9, 2009 9:27 am US/Central A DeKalb man has been charged with attempted murder after he allegedly fired shots at Chicago Police Sunday morning in the West Side's Lawndale neighborhood.

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Mayor Daley defended the incremental gain in test scores. Chicago Public Schools is announcing that state test scores for elementary students have inched up.

Share + Jul 8, 2009 2:48 pm US/Eastern CHICAGO Police are looking for the burglar who found a spare key and walked into a home in the Edgewater neighborhood, making off with a rare violin, CBS station WBBM-TV reports.

The former chief of staff for ousted Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich pleaded guilty Wednesday and agreed to testify about attempts to cash in on the governor's power to fill a vacant U.S. Senate post.

Jul. 7--For too many Chicago residents, the pop of gunfire blended in with 4th of July fireworks, rocking neighborhoods across the city.

Mayor Daley on Tuesday blamed hot weather and holiday drinking -- not a diversion of police resources to Taste of Chicago -- for one of the deadliest weekends in recent memory.

A West Side man who said he spent too much money at the Taste of Chicago was arrested after allegedly accusing Chicago Police of stealing $250 from him Saturday night at the Loop foodfest.

A Chicago man is trying to reunite a camera and thousands of digital pictures with their owner that he believes is in Dallas, after finding the camera on the street on his way home from work.

Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's personnel chief says he has turned in his resignation -- less than two weeks after independent Chicago Inspector General David Hoffman accused him of lying during an investigation of hiring abuses.

In the wake of a bloody July 4th weekend, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley is defending the efforts of the city's police department to reduce violence.