Authorities also said Juan Lopez threatened five years ago to shoot up the Chicago Fire Academy while he was in training there after being disciplined for improper conduct toward women.
By Jon Seidel and Frank Main
A relative of the slain officer said he and his wife had been raising three children and added: “We’re all hurting because he left us."
By Robert Herguth and Carlos Ballesteros and Tim Novak and Manny Ramos
Officers arrived at Mercy Hospital about a minute after Dr. Tamara O'Neal called 911. By then, she already had been shot.
By Sun-Times Staff
By Steve Reed | Associated Press
Jordan handed out Thanksgiving dinners at a home improvement store and gave away Jordan Brand shoes at a Boys & Girls Club.
Michael Jordan returned to his hometown of Wilmington, North Carolina and met with some hurricane victims who benefited from his $2 million donation.
Drugstore operator Walgreens and health insurer Humana are in early talks over taking ownership stakes in each other, The Wall Street Journal says.
With basketball season starting as football heads to the state finals, this is an action packed episode on the latest high school sports news.
An action packed video on high school sports featuring updates on the start of the basketball season and our picks to win the state football titles.
By Ji Suk Yi
From colorful Mexican-themed murals to the smell of fresh tortillas, carnitas, coffee and pan dulce. Pilsen is a sensory overload in every way!
From colorful Mexican-themed murals to the smell of fresh tortillas, carnitas, coffee and pan dulce. Pilsen is a sensory overload in every way! Founded by Bohemians, Pilsen is now a thriving community of mostly Mexican-Americans who own welcoming restaurants and charming shops.
By Adam L. Jahns
Bears QB Mitch Trubisky suffered a right shoulder injury late in the Bears' win against the Vikings.
By Patrick Finley
Mitch Trubisky did not practice because of a right shoulder injury, leaving Chase Daniel the Bears’ only healthy quarterback on the active roster.
By Gordon Wittenmyer
Hickey leaves after just one season with the Cubs.
The Sun-Times’ experts offer their picks for the Bears’ Week 12 game against the Lions on Thursday at Ford Field:
By Joe Cowley
Valentine said that he had bounced back in the past after rolling his left ankle, but when it didn't respond this fall he knew a decision was coming.
By Sun-Times Wire
Shootings across Chicago Monday left five people dead and three others wounded.
By David Struett
Nelida Mendoza, 51, was charged with a felony count of aggravated domestic battery, according to the Kane County state's attorney's office.
One of the suspects fired a gun into a wall during one of the robberies, police said.
By Matthew Hendrickson
Security at Soldier Field was alerted to the gun about 7:25 p.m. when 57-year-old Levi Flemister walked through a metal detector at the stadium.
Jose L. Dominguez, 52, was charged with 10 felony counts of child sex abuse and two felony counts of sex abuse.
By Mark Brown
Given an opportunity to question another candidate, Preckwinkle and Mendoza each took direct aim at the other.
Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle and state Comptroller Susana Mendoza wasted no time going after each other Monday night in the first mayoral candidate forum featuring the two perceived frontrunners.
By Associated Press
President Donald Trump mercilessly criticized his 2016 Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, for using a private email server.
Ivanka Trump, the president's daughter and adviser, sent hundreds of emails about government business from a personal email account last year.
By Alan Fram | Associated Press
The battle pits the party's largely liberal and diverse membership backing Pelosi against a small group of mostly moderate, male lawmakers.
Sixteen Democrats who've opposed Nancy Pelosi's quest to become speaker released a letter Monday saying they will vote for "new leadership" when the House picks its leaders in January, posing a threat to her effort to lead her party's House majority in the next Congress.
By Mitch Dudek and Tina Sfondeles
The weeklong period for candidates to file the required nominating signatures to get on the Feb. 26 ballot kicked off on Monday.
Former Chicago Public Schools CEO Paul Vallas, businessman and philanthropist Willie Wilson, Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, attorney Jerry Joyce and activist Catherine Brown D'Tycoon were among those who filed nominating signatures for the mayor’s race on Monday morning.
By David Bauder and Catherine Lucey | AP
Reporters would be permitted one question each if called upon at news conferences and allowed follow-ups only at the discretion of the president.
The Trump administration on Monday abruptly dropped its effort to bar CNN reporter Jim Acosta from the White House, but warned he could have his credentials pulled again if he doesn't follow guidelines governing journalists' behavior.
By Maureen O'Donnell
Retired U. of C. physicist Riccardo Levi-Setti was also a rock star — a renowned authority on trilobite fossils,. He died Nov. 8 in Hyde Park at 91.
Zenon Mazurkevich-designed Chicago church “is this gigantic, shiny, imposing yet quirky spaceship-like object" in an unusual Northwest Side spot.
Bartender Frank Rotondo was “part therapist, part bartender, part friend,” says Rich Melman, founder of Lettuce Entertain You restaurants.
Fit and ever-stylish, Isabell Smith worked into her mid-50s as a hosiery fit model, providing dependable measurements to create petite-size nylons.
A friend told George Wilkins Jr.'s son: “I grew up without a father, but I learned how to be a father while watching your father.”
By Richard Roeper
The premise is 40 precent hokey, 60 precent ingenious, just like a superhero movie where the son of the vanquished villain seeks his revenge!
By Kris Vire - For the Sun-Times
For “Rightlynd,” writer Ike Holter pulls out all of the realistic stops, the better to express his disdain for the city’s entire political system.
By Catey Sullivan - For the Sun-Times
It is innovative and charming and funny and gloriously creative and terrifically engaging for its entirely too-brief, 60-minute run time.
By Mary Houlihan - For the Sun-Times
Looking for some fun and exciting things to do in the coming weeks? We've got you covered with our guide to holiday entertainment and more.
From holiday classics to rock and roll, music will fill Chicago's concert halls this season.
Homeless woman beaten to death while sheltering in Evanston church doorway: cops
Woman hit, killed by SUV in Lindenhurst
2 men shot, 1 fatally, in Lansing: police
Man stabbed to death in Waukegan home, wife arrested: police
