President Barack Obama mixed blunt messages to Kenya's leaders on gay rights, corruption and counterterrorism Saturday with warm reflections on his family ties to a nation that considers him a local son.

A 21-year-old woman was found dead on a Brown Line platform Saturday morning in the Loop, police said.

Carol Gilchrist, 80, stood by the edge of the Chicago River on Saturday and recounted how her mother nearly drowned in it. Then 3 years old, Marie Homola, Gilchrist's mother, clung to her father's neck as he tread water a century ago during what's ...

Joseph Campbell's body lay in a pool of blood on a West Side sidewalk as the sun began to rise early Saturday morning, hours after he had been fatally shot in the abdomen and right shoulder.

Aurora police are investigating the death of an 18-month-old boy who apparently drowned in a small swimming pool at his home Friday night.

Sitting in more than 365 feet of water for 116 years, one of the most well-preserved shipwrecks in the Great Lakes was found last month. The Michigan Shipwreck Research Association, a group devoted to exploring, researching and documenting Lake Mic...