Adriana Pérez

Chicago’s piping plover population may grow after Searocket and Imani laid their first egg of the season on the Montrose Beach Dunes shoreline Sunday morning, a little over a week since their reunion for Mother’s Day weekend. Volunteer monitors said […]

The man accused of shooting a 39-year-old Jewish man in West Rogers Park at the end of October has died after being found unresponsive in Cook County Jail Saturday afternoon, according to the Cook County sheriff’s office. While conducting a routine

A man was shot dead Sunday by St. Charles police as he wielded a chainsaw and threatened residents of an assisted living facility, according to authorities. Around 8:45 a.m. Sunday, dispatch officers with the police department responded to a welfare

A Cicero man was charged with the murder of a 62-year-old in the West Garfield Park neighborhood on Thanksgiving afternoon. Police arrested Gad Hughes, 29, on Friday. Authorities said Hughes had fired gunshots outside in the 4000 block of West

As the boat zipped down the Chicago River on a nippy November morning, Sammie Clark stood up and pointed at a creature swimming in the water, its brown fur slick and its head bobbing just above the surface. It kept close

A teenager is hospitalized in serious condition after being shot while walking on a sidewalk in the Morgan Park neighborhood Saturday night, according to police. Officers responded to the 900 block of West 115th Street at approximately 9:17 p.m. An

Hundreds of mourners lined up outside an Oak Lawn funeral home Sunday to pay their respects to fallen Chicago police Officer Enrique Martínez, who was killed in the line of duty earlier this month. As the sun set and its

Former Chicago cop, alderman and Cook County commissioner William “Bill” Beavers, the self-proclaimed “hog with the big nuts,” died Saturday morning of natural complications, his spokesperson said. He was 89. “Today is a difficult day for the Beavers family and

For more than a decade, dozens of posters printed with the faces of local children have flanked the exterior of Lincoln Park Presbyterian Church for three weeks in early fall. The signs are each labeled with a name, date and

As the first wave of swimmers waded a few hundred feet into the 73-degree water Sunday morning at Ohio Street Beach, the rain began to pelt down in earnest. From the concrete trail and the beach, spectators gathered to witness an