Karina Atkins

Two women are dead following a car collision on the Northwest Side early Sunday morning. A red sedan driven by a 29-year-old man struck a black SUV occupied by three women during what appeared to be an attempted turn on […]

A young man, 18, is in critical condition after being robbed at gunpoint Saturday night in Austin, according to Chicago police. The victim was reportedly sitting in a parked car around 10 p.m. when two armed men demanded his property

The pews of St. Christina’s Parish were a sea of black and blue Sunday morning, with uniformed Chicago police officers scattered among the congregants. Many proudly adhered fallen Chicago police Officer Enrique Martinez’s face to their chests. “In loving memory,”

A Tinley Park man has been charged with two felonies after barricading himself and two women inside his home for nearly 17 hours on Halloween, Cook County Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced Sunday. Officers arrived at 54-year-old Jason Soltis’ home

In the late 1960s, the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party distributed free breakfast to schoolchildren at a youth services center in North Lawndale. On Sunday, several former chapter members gathered at the center over collard greens, chicken thighs

A teenage boy and two young men were struck by gunfire outside the United Center Sunday night, according to Chicago police. The shooting occurred on the 100 block of North Wolcott minutes before the 7 p.m. start time of rapper

Daughters tossed baseballs with their mothers as they warmed up for the finale of Warren Park’s first all-girls baseball league Sunday. “I want girls to be able to play in the Major Leagues,” declared Weezy Gansner of Edgewater. The 9-year-old

Cheers, music and cowbells are not Chicago’s typical Sunday morning soundtrack, but little was typical about the city streets during the 46th Chicago Marathon. Savannah Payne, of Lakeview East, enticed her friends to join her on the crisp fall morning

Thirty-five children woke up Sunday at Lurie Children’s Hospital hoping to beat cancer. On the streets below, 22 bikers prepared for a 5-day, 100-mile ride through Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin to fund pediatric cancer research. Shawn Horton, of Hugo, Minnesota,

An Uptown woman has been charged with attempted first-degree murder for a shooting aboard a CTA Red Line train Wednesday morning. Indya Smith, 23, is accused of shooting a 33-year-old rider in the shoulder after spitting on him while quarreling