A man found dead in Lake Michigan on Friday has been identified as Pengjun Shen, Evanston police said. Shen, 28, was a University of Chicago graduate student, said Evanston Police Department spokesman Perry...

A man was found dead in Lake Michigan Friday at approximately 1:10 p.m., Evanston police said. Chicago police were searching for a suicidal man who had been reported missing when their officers discovered...

A gang-related drive-by shooting Tuesday night on the Evanston-Chicago border left three people injured, Chicago police said. Three men, all documented gang members, were standing on the sidewalk at...

A window washer was seriously injured Wednesday morning when he fell six stories while on the job at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in north Chicago. The 30-year-old man fell at about 8 a.m. from scaffolding...

The Cook County State's Attorney's Office is being sued by a Chicago activist who claims it refused to comply with his request for documents under the Freedom of Information Act.   The lawsuit was...