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A 14-year-old boy was killed and 17 other people were wounded in three separate mass shootings that took place within a span of six hours across Chicago on Wednesday, according to police.

A Chicago cat may now have only eight lives after jumping out of a fifth-floor window to escape an apartment fire.

Authorities are searching for a suspect after a 7-year-old girl was killed and her father wounded in a shooting Sunday afternoon while sitting inside a vehicle at a McDonald’s drive-thru in Chicago’s Homan Square neighborhood, according to police.

A dog rescued from Lake Michigan on Chicago’s North Side Monday was reunited with its owner days after it went missing.

Three people were stabbed as a result of a fight near Chicago’s Navy Pier, and 14 people were injured, many from an unrelated stampede, at the pier following the Fourth of July fireworks show, police said.

The mother-daughter duo accused of murdering a pregnant Chicago teen before cutting her baby out of her stomach distracted the woman with a photo album of their late son and brother before strangling her to death, prosecutors said Friday.

A mother and daughter were charged Thursday with strangling a missing pregnant teenager to death with a coaxial cable, authorities said.

A pregnant woman whose body was found behind a home on Chicago’s Southwest Side was murdered and her baby was “forcibly removed” from her body after her death, police said.

A spokeswoman for the family of Marlen Ochoa said the missing teen’s baby has been found and that the family remains “hopeful but prepared for the worst” as Chicago police continue to investigate the 19-year-old’s disappearance.

A man who died of injuries suffered in a weekend beating has been identified as the son of a former Chicago Fire Department chief who acts on the television show “Chicago Fire.”

A good Samaritan offered to pay for hotel rooms for 70 homeless people who were camped out in tents in the bitter cold that blanketed Chicago.

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A 14-year-old boy has become the tenth person to die in a tragic house fire on Chicago’s West Side that claimed the lives of three other teens and six young children.

A gunman is in custody after police say he opened fire at the scene of a car crash on Chicago’s South Side, sending a bullet through the windshield of a responding firetruck.

Ten people were shot, two fatally, while gathered at a vigil for another deadly shooting on Chicago’s Southwest Side Sunday.

At least four people are dead and five others were injured in a crash involving a car and a CTA bus on Chicago’s West Side early Sunday, according to police.

Chicago Transit Authority Blue Line train service resumed Monday morning after crews worked through the night to repair the damage from a steel canopy that came crashing down during Sunday’s storms.

Passengers on a Southwest Airlines flight from Chicago to Boston were forced to evacuate the plane Wednesday night after takeoff was aborted at Midway Airport due to a “mechanical issue.”