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A Chicago Lawn neighborhood man died when he was struck in the head by a forklift late Monday while working in an industrial park in southwest suburban Chicago Ridge.

What a difference a tax credit makes: Home sales spiked 33.3 percent in the Chicago metropolitan area in October from a year earlier, the fourth straight month of year-over-year increases, helped by record-low mortgage interest rates and a tax credit incentive that had been close to expiring.

Last week, the body of Chicago school board president Michael Scott was found in the Chicago River with a single bullet wound in his head.

Ten people -- including a North Side immigration attorney and several current or former Cook County employees -- were charged Monday in a federal indictment with allegedly participating in a marriage fraud conspiracy.

The Chicago Board of Education remembered Michael Scott at its first meeting since his death a week ago.

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Sharon Durling went to the morgue a few days ago to ID Wanda Jean Taylor's body.

One person died and another was injured overnight in an apartment fire on the city's West Side.

Last week, the body of Chicago school board president Michael Scott was found in the Chicago River with a single bullet wound in his head.

Grief and anger, like clouds of a coming storm, moved back and forth across the landscape of Mayor Daley's face in public appearances last week.

A federal judge in Miami sentenced Narseal Batiste, the ringleader of a plot to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago, to 13 1 2 years in prison.

Chicago Mayor Richard Daley says Oprah Winfrey has been a "tremendous asset" to Chicago and he's saddened to hear her show will end.

A South Side teen accused of shooting at Chicago police officers was ordered held without bail Saturday.

Weis calls detective the 'Bernie Madoff' of the sergeants union; cash allegedly used for Vegas trips, dinners Comments November 21, 2009 The president of the Chicago Police Sergeants' Association was charged Friday with using fellow sergeants' union dues as a personal piggy bank, allegedly stealing more than $600,000 and spending it on a home, ...

Authorities have closed the northbound express lanes of Chicago's Dan Ryan Expressway south of downtown after a seven-car crash.

Two men have been charged for a shooting in the Northwest Side's Hermosa neighborhood that left a woman critically injured early Thursday.

As news spread that talk show icon Oprah Winfrey planned to end her program in 2011, Chicagoans debated what the talk show queen's absence would mean to the city that has been her home since 1983.

Winfrey told the audience that she loved "The OprahA Winfrey Show," that it had been her life and that she knew when it was time to say goodbye.

Police in Chicago said three men were arrested in two armed robbery cases involving postings on the Web site Craigslist.

They set up a cocaine "command and control" center in Chicago, according to U.S. drug agents, to distribute multi-thousand kilo quantities for one of Mexico's most notorious cartels.