If we have any readers in the Belmont Heights neighborhood on the Northwest Side and you happen to see a purple two door mid-sized car with tinted windows, call the police first, then maybe refer the driver to someone who can thread or wax his eyebrows. more ›

Andre Curry thanked members of a Chicago South side church for their support of him while he was in jail on charges of child abuse stemming from a photograph he posted of his daughter, ankles and wrists bound by tape, on Facebook. more ›

A DuPage County judge sentenced 39-year-old Robert Lyons to 40 years in prison for killing his mother after she wouldn't use a hookup to score him Avril Lavigne tickets in 2008. more ›

Alvarez's comments are the latest in a stance that has left many confused and wondering if she's being loyal to a fault, to her predecessor and mentor Dick Devine. more ›

Two men have been charged in the Dec. 29 murder of off-duty police officer Clifton Lewis. more ›

Police have issued a community alert saying a rash of robberies have broken out in the Bucktown and Logan Square area. more ›

Edward L. Brown said in the police report he was let into the theater for free by an unknown female, who he claimed told him to strip in the front row and wait for her with the promise of sex, smoking crack and doing heroin. more ›

A Chicago Police officer working off-duty security at a West side convenience store was killed during an attempted robbery last night. more ›

Although city murder rates are at their lowest in decades citywide, murders in Englewood rose 40 percent this year. more ›

Surveillance camera footage from the store at 66th and Halsted showed the intended victim trying to avoid the gunman by running through a crowd of people in the store. more ›

A motorist spent Christmas in jail after he allegedly drove his car into a police station on the South side while inebriated behind the wheel. more ›

The efforts of Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart to identify the remains of eight victims of notorious serial killer John Wayne Gacy continues to produce unexpected results after a second suspected victim of Gacy's was found to be living alive and well in Oregon. more ›

That's when Lifetime will air Drew Peterson: Untouchable, the made-for-television movie starring Rob Lowe as the former Bolingbrook policeman who has a unique kavorka with the ladies and isn't very good at keeping a wife. more ›

The police standoff that cocked up Red and Purple line operation last night is over and now details about what happened in Uptown. more ›

24-year-old Anthony Miranda got what some may call karmic payback when he tried to rob a martial arts expert and ultimate fighter Friday night on the Southwest side. more ›

The family of William George Bundy finally have closure after DNA samples they provided to Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart's office matched samples extracted from the unidentified remains earlier this year. more ›

Eduardo Castro, Sr., 48, and his son Eduardo, Jr., 24, are alleged to have beaten a man on the 3200 block of South Aberdeen Street, then stole his wallet, cell phone and jacket. more ›

Yesterday, Judge James Zagel denied Blagojevich's request to have all the f-ing wiretaps prosecutors have on him played in open court. Zagel minced no words in chiding Blago's legal team for the last-minute motion and said filing the motion when they had access to it all along was a waste of time. more ›

Murder charges were filed today against a woman and her boyfriend in connection to the beating death of her 4-year-old son on his birthday last Friday. more ›

Earl Roberts is alleged to have shot ex-wife Angela Bonds in the head as she was walking to her the parking garage with two men, one of them her boyfriend. more ›

47-year-old Earl Roberts was arrested shortly after 6:30 a.m. after a UIC police officer recognized him during a routine traffic stop, which turned into a foot chase. more ›

Internet sleuths have been compiling information on Strahan for weeks and even set up a Facebook page demanding Strahan be brought to justice. more ›

White Sox general manager Kenny Williams is probably changing his locks and the security codes for his downtown townhouse today after a homeless man broke into it over the weekend, liked what he saw, and made himself at home more ›

John Steinert, principal of Deer Path Middle School, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor harassment through electronic communications in May 2009. At the time, Lake Forest School District 67 issued a reprimand, required Steinert to seek counseling and temporarily froze his salary. more ›

Attorney William Martin said the boy's family received $3.2 million, which should be enough for him to continue weekly therapy sessions and, eventually, attending college and starting his own business. more ›

We've long said Chicago blues traffics in cliche, but we never thought we'd see a news item where that carried over into the crime blotter. more ›

Chicago Police are looking for a man or, more accurately, punk, who was recorded in the video below punching out an older man at a Red Line subway station. It also brings back memories of the roving mobs that assaulted people in Streeterville during late spring and early summer. more ›

Bridgeport residents have expressed shock at the Oct. 22 beating death of 73-year-old Virginia Perillo. The story took a morbid turn today with the arrest of a man in connection with the murder. more ›

The population at Cook County Jail dropped from 75,496 in 2007 to 62,098 this year. But Dart and Alvarez blamed the length of stays at the jail on the courts. more ›

File this under: "You've had enough for one night." more ›