The Pulitzer Prize– and Emmy Award–winning journalist recounts a story of hope and heartbreak on the South Side of Chicago.

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CHICAGO, Ill. – Chicago resident William Brown loves basketball. “I've always been Michael Jordan crazy," Brown said. "You know that’s like every Black kid’s dream growing up, wanting to be a ...

The reputed leader of Chicago’s Wicked Town gang faction and one of his top lieutenants pleaded guilty Tuesday to racketeering conspiracy involving a string of murders, shootings and robberies in ...

Delphine Cherry knows as well as anyone how intractable violent crime is in Chicago. In 1992, her teenage daughter was gunned down in one of the city's tawniest neighborhoods — a bystander caught up ...

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CHICAGO (WLS) -- A Chicago woman serving a life sentence for a murder she committed as a teenager has been resentenced to 63 years in prison. Jacqueline Montanez was 15-years-old when she and a ...

ICE has announced it has launched "Operation Midway Blitz" targeting illegal immigrants in the Chicago area in honor of a ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. -- A doctor from Santa Ana is performing extraordinary work in one of the busiest trauma centers in the country, but his journey to working in the operating room was anything but ...