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Half of the money raised from the event is going toward the YWCA Metropolitan Chicago, Robbins Mayor Tyrone Ward said.

By the time the train reached Roosevelt, its next stop, prosecutors said the thieves had collected purses, wallets, cash and cellphones in a black backpack - and were ready to flee.

Trevor Labak, 12, of the 1700 block of Stratton Pond Lane in Schaumburg, was pronounced dead at 9:18 a.m. at St. Alexius Medical Center in Hoffman Estates, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's office.

A boy and a girl were killed and two other teenagers were seriously injured early Sunday in a single-vehicle crash in south suburban Harvey.

Unlike most of them, a year ago Fulton thought college was beyond his reach. As one of thousands of homeless students in the Chicago suburbs, he was preoccupied with where he would live and what he would eat, rather than planning a future.

Courthouse News has removed from its website a July 16, 2014, article that reported on a class action over car insurance policies in Cook County, Ill.

A Southwest Side man has been charged with stabbing a man during a bar fight last week in unincorporated Stickney.

An agency that supplies drinking water to Streamwood overcharged the village roughly $80,000 in May, a gaffe officials traced to a valve left open in a Schaumburg Road pumping station.

Very nice approach by the Bloomingdale Park District, which is holding an open house next week about playground equipment for Seasons Four Park.

"We're not just talking the talk, we're walking the walk," the mayor says. "They think it is a great idea and they are very supportive."

A worker at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport is accused of stealing two computers from military foot lockers that were being shipped overseas.

A Chicago Lawn man is the second to be charged with the fatal shooting of a 48-year-old cab driver in 2013 on the South Side.

Summer may be coming to a close, but that doesn't mean the fun has to stop. Keep enjoying summer with our picks of the top 10 things to do around Burr Ridge this weekend.

Gov. Pat Quinn and Republican challenger Bruce Rauner traded barbs Thursday on the issue of violent crime, as the governor sought to make Rauner's support for ownership of assault weapons a major campaign issue.

Cook County is getting more than $4.7 million from the state for construction projects, including new roofs for buildings at area colleges.

Early Thursday morning, a 39-year-old man was fatally shot at a gas station in the Far South Side West Pullman neighborhood.

The brother of a Crestwood man who died of cancer last year has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the village, claiming that hazardous chemicals in the village's drinking water supply caused the illness.

A 36-year-old Chicago man, who was charged with sexual assault after dozens of rape kits were discovered at a south suburban police station, was sentenced to 40 years in prison Thursday.

Billionaire investor Kenneth Griffin, who oversees $20 billion at hedge fund Citadel LLC, filed for divorce from his wife citing "irreconcilable differences," according to court filings seen by Reuters on Thursday.

Gov. Pat Quinn has thrown his support behind a Cook County ballot measure that asks voters to weigh in on Illinois gun laws.