Life in America's third-largest city is already expensive: Motorists pay some of the highest gas prices in the nation, and shoppers get hit with sales taxes higher than those in New York or Los Angeles. Now it could get even worse.
A federal judge on Thursday refused to order the city to give aldermen the names of hundreds of police officers who have been repeatedly accused of misconduct.
More than half of Chicago's aldermen asked a federal judge Monday to release confidential information to them about hundreds of police officers who have been repeatedly accused of abusing civilians.
The Mob is moving in on "Chicago."
A car circles a high-rise three times. Someone leaves a backpack in a park. Such things go unnoticed in big cities every day. But that could change in Chicago with a new video surveillance system that would recognize such anomalies and alert authorities to take a closer look.
The Rev. Al Sharpton plans to open a branch of his National Action Network in Chicago to target what he calls chronic police misconduct and a lack of political accountability. It's also the home turf of the Rev. Jesse Jackson's Rainbow/PUSH Coalition.
Never mind that Chicago hosted the 2006 International Gay Games. Or that it has the country's first government-recognized gay neighborhood. Or that up to 400,000 people attend the city's Gay Pride Parade each year.
Fire broke out in a vacant post office Tuesday where a movie crew had been filming scenes for an upcoming "Batman" sequel.
The city's planning board has endorsed a proposal for a twisting lakefront tower that would become the nation's tallest building.
Fire broke out on the roof of a 45-story office building Wednesday, sending some workers fleeing into the downtown streets.
A convicted killer tried to escape from a Chicago hospital in leg shackles and stabbed a nurse and three other people with a metal shank before he was caught on a bus outside, authorities said.
An attorney who has fought City Hall's political patronage hiring for nearly 40 years says a $12 million settlement could finally drive a stake in "Chicago-style politics."
Democrat Barack Obama piled on the praise last month as he stood beside Chicago Mayor Richard Daley and embraced the mayor's bid for a sixth term.
An effort to honor the NFC Champion Chicago Bears hit a snag Tuesday morning when a huge football helmet broke as it was being placed on one of the lion statues that stands guard outside the Art Institute of Chicago.
Five months after the city ordered restaurants to stop selling foie gras, it's liver and let liver in Chicago.
When the longtime Cook County Board president suffered a stroke and couldn't run for another term, he anointed a successor: his son, a Chicago alderman.
Mayor Richard M. Daley announced Monday he will run for a sixth term, a move that could put him in office longer than his legendary father.
The gunman who went on a deadly shooting spree at a downtown law office was convinced a toilet he invented for truck drivers would transform his quiet life, his family said.
Carrying a cache of weapons into a bustling downtown office, a man chained a law firm's doors closed and fatally shot three people before a police sniper killed him as he held a hostage at gunpoint, authorities said.
A Muslim convert who authorities say talked about waging violent jihad is in custody after federal agents say he tried to make an unusual trade: two stereo speakers for a 9 mm pistol and the grenades he would need to pull off his alleged plot.
Robert Cheruiyot wore a wide grin and made one thing clear Tuesday as he finally celebrated his victory at the Chicago Marathon.
Hundreds of residents from a working-class neighborhood gathered Wednesday behind six white caskets at the funeral for the children killed in an apartment fire over Labor Day weekend.
Mayor Richard Daley vetoed an ordinance Monday that would have required mega-retailers to pay their workers more than other employers after some of the nation's largest stores including Wal-Mart Stores Inc. warned the measure would keep them from opening their doors within the city's limits.
From her window, Kizzie Edwards often would see the Ramirez children playing on their back porch, some of them tapping out tunes on a miniature xylophone. "I used to wave to one of the little girls every morning," Edwards said Sunday. "I can't believe I can't do that anymore."
The City Council brushed aside warnings from Wal-Mart Stores Inc. to approve an ordinance that makes Chicago the biggest city in the nation to require big-box retailers to pay a "living wage."