The Hersheys store on the Magnificent Mile downtown was robbed Thursday night, police said.
A 14-year-old West Side girl last seen Wednesday and had been reported missing has safely returned home, police said.
Maywood police executed 30 warrants Friday morning in connection with a west suburban drug ring allegedly operated by members of the Gangster Disciples.
The father of a 9-year-old girl found slain in an alley near his home last week was questioned by Chicago Police detectives and submitted to a polygraph test Thursday.
A would-be thief climbed to the roof of a Tinley Park gas station this week and disabled a credit card satellite transmitter by wrapping foil around it -- a low-tech way to rip off a high-tech system.
Last year, the Chicago FBI ran more undercover investigations and ordered more secret "Title III" wiretaps than any other FBI bureau in the nation -- including L.A. and New York.
Perhaps Missy got hungry.
Chicago Police closed 12th Street Beach on Thursday evening after a half dozen fistfights broke out among hundreds of teenagers gathered outside the Charter One Pavilion.
Nine dogs possibly being used for fighting and breeding were confiscated Thursday from the Northwest Side apartment of a convicted felon, police said.
GREEN BAY, Wis. -- I came to the Green Bay Packers' shareholders meeting Thursday at Lambeau Field expecting emotion. Anger. Sustained booing. I wondered if outraged fans would throw cheese curds a
...After decades of living in free society as a prolific, merciless mob hit man, Frank "The German" Schweihs, was finally set to face justice this fall.
Police are looking for a Cadillac DeVille that a shooter jumped inside after fatally shooting a man on a Southeast Side sidewalk early Friday.
DAYTON, Ohio---- Fifteen players and both managers were ejected -- and a fan was sent to the hospital -- following a 10-minute, benches-clearing brawl in a Class-A minor league game between affilia
...PHOENIX---- A former student shot three people Thursday in a computer room at a Phoenix community college, injuring one of them critically, authorities said. The gunman fled but a suspect was arres
...BENNETT, Colo.---- A convicted spammer fatally shot his wife and young daughter in an apparent murder-suicide Thursday while being sought after escaping prison last weekend, authorities said.
FORT WORTH, Texas---- A teenager shown on a video coaxing his 2- and 4-year-old nephews into smoking marijuana was sentenced Thursday to eight years in prison.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska---- A 21-year-old woman working at a lodge for the summer was attacked by a grizzly bear about 25 yards outside a building.
TERRELL, N.C.---- After catching one of two people wanted in a series of break-ins, deputies in North Carolina let their fingers do the chasing to catch a second suspect.
WASHINGTON -- Sixteen years after Barbie dolls declared, ''Math class is tough!'' girls are proving that when it comes to math they are just as tough as boys.
RALEIGH, N.C. -- The son of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is suing Duke University, claiming his golf coach manufactured accusations against him to justify kicking him off the team to wh
...PORTLAND, Ore. -- Portland police are not above the parking laws, even if they're hungry.
MIAMI---- The grandmother of a missing 2-year-old Orlando girl told an emergency dispatcher that a car driven by the girl's mother smelled like there had been a dead body inside, according to recor
...TRENTON, N.J.---- Authorities are investigating whether a veteran state lawmaker possessed child pornography on his office computer, two assemblymen who share an office with him said Thursday.
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The inmates say they're Jewish, but the prison considers them Protestant.
NEW ORLEANS---- Dozens of cargo ships, petrochemical tankers and smaller vessels stacked up Thursday near a closed stretch of the Mississippi River, a day after a collision between a barge and tank
...NEW YORK---- It started as a bar fight in a college town in upstate New York.
EDMOND, Okla. -- After shying away from helping fund a Moses statue, Edmond city leaders now are taking a wait-and-see approach on helping pay for a sculpture of Jesus Christ.
JARRATT, Va.---- A killer who argued that Virginia's procedures for lethal injection were unconstitutional has been executed after a federal appeals court rejected his claims.
JERUSALEM -- A written prayer that Barack Obama left this week in the cracks of the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site, asks God to guide him and guard his family, an Israeli newspaper reported F
...MANILA, Philippines---- A Qantas jumbo jet carrying 345 passengers made an emergency landing Friday with a gaping hole in its fuselage after a mysterious ''explosive decompression,'' officials said.
BAGHDAD -- The insurgency that bedeviled U.S. forces for years and killed thousands of Iraqis and Americans has withered to the point where it is ''not even much of a challenge any more'' to Iraq's
...GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip---- A bomb exploded outside a cafe early Friday and another went off outside the home of a Hamas lawmaker, security officials said. One person was killed.
LONDON -- After the sting of scandal, Max Mosley can feel the balm of victory.