CITY HALL — Of the 804 new Chicago Police officers hired in 2017, 41 percent are white, according to data provided to aldermen Thursday. Some 35 percent are Hispanic, 17 percent are black and 7 ...

CHICAGO — Just around the corner, the Hawk will return. Not ornithologically. Meteorologically. How the Hawk, the name referring to Chicago's cold, harsh winter wind, got its name is "a mystery," ...

TRIBECA — Eight people were killed and nearly a dozen injured when a terrorist driving a rental truck struck multiple people during a 20-block rampage along a bike path on West Street Tuesday ...

CROWN HEIGHTS — A church group that sold their former worship space to a Crown Heights developer says they're being cheated out of space promised to them in the new building going up where the old ...

DUNNING — Wrecking crews this week pronounced the end of Ralph Frese's Chicagoland Canoe Base, 4019 N. Narragansett Ave., which spent decades as an iconic craft workshop known as the city's last ...

ROSCOE VILLAGE — Fans of Hero's Submarine Sandwich Shop have just two more days to fill their hankering for mixed cold cuts. Members of the Arnoux family, who've operated Hero's at Addison and Western ...

HIGHLAND PARK — The famous glass and steel home that served as the set for Cameron Frye's house in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" is undergoing a historic renovation — and it's not because a bright red ...

LAKEVIEW — For some, going to church is like coming home. And for others, that's true in an even more literal sense. But perhaps no rebirth lends as much scope to the imagination as houses of worship ...

A rendering of the future development planned for Hallets Point, which would include 2,000 apartments — 483 of them affordable — along with a supermarket, school and waterfront esplanade to rise over ...

WEST RIDGE — Before becoming one of the city's most prolific resting places, Rosehill Cemetery was a rolling plat of hilly land called "Roe's Hill" by locals. In true Chicago form, nearby resident ...

Editor's note: This story was originally published Jan. 18. DOWNTOWN — When violence in Chicago gets national media attention, one refrain is heard again and again: Bring in the National Guard! Before ...

EDGEWATER — In August 1977, Chicago Police detectives Joseph Stachula and Lee Epplen were six months deep into a frustratingly fruitless investigation to uncover the murderer of Teresita Basa, a ...