Often the target of U.S. human rights accusations, China wasted little time returning such charges following the shooting at a historic black church in South Carolina that left nine people dead. Elsewhere in Asia, the attack renewed perceptions tha...

A woman has died after falling from the second story of a building in the Lincoln Park area, officials said.

A semitrailer driver fell asleep and slammed into 13 cars in a construction zone on Interstate 55 near Summit, sending at least six people to hospitals, none with injuries thought life-threatening, state police said.

Emergency crews rescued a man from the Chicago River after he apparently jumped in after his Blackhawks cap, officials said.

As Chicago's youth violence made national headlines, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and business leaders in 2013 launched what they called a game-changing initiative to quell the bloodshed.

You know those infuriating surveys that attach a dollar figure to the work parents do at home?