Brandon A. Gray, 18, charged with shooting a 16-year-old in Alton, marking a significant step in the investigation.

A Pullman man has been charged with murder in the shooting deaths of two Chicago Public Schools students a year ago in the ...

A Chicago man has been charged with murder in the fatal shooting of two teenagers who were gunned down outside their downtown high school last year.

The rifle used in a Will County sheriff’s lieutenant’s fatal shooting of a hostage taker at a Romeoville bank was tested by “two independent bodies” and was found not to have malfunctioned, according ...

Chicago fire officials said a man was killed and another man was injured on the city's West Side in a shooting not far from an elementary school.

Tommie Coleman, 22, was arrested by Chicago police and members of the U.S. Marshals Great Lakes Regional Task Force on ...

The Chicago Bulls, playing without star guard Zach LaVine, lost the opener of a three-game trip Wednesday night, falling to ...

The other two men in the car told police that there had been no arguing or other incident before the shooting, and that Aquilar Carrasco and Diaz, both Waukegan residents, were friendly.

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Springfield, Illinois (AP) — The US Justice Department and a central Illinois sheriff’s office on Friday announced a deal resolving an inquiry into violations of federal anti-discrimination ...

FILE - In this image taken from body camera video released by Illinois State Police, Sonya Massey, left, talks with former Sangamon County Sheriff's Deputy Sean Grayson outside her home in ...

In the days since the shooting, the task force and the Illinois State Police, have released other details of what its investigators think occurred. During the initial part of the encounter that ...