A division title might soon mean a banner but no assurance of a playoff spot in the NBA.

Chicago rapper Chief Keef plans to hold a benefit concert Saturday to memorialize a toddler killed in the aftermath of shooting despite city officials thwarting his last effort to appear at another local venue.

At least 40 people stood at the crime scene tape stretched across the intersection of 59th and State streets late Tuesday, looking at the silver Dodge Charger in which a 26-year-old man had been shot to death.

A report of a lion roaming a Milwaukee neighborhood has police and others on the lookout.

An Illinois man is dead after his motorcycle and a semitrailer collided at the junction of U.S. Highways 12 and 83 in northern South Dakota.

Mickey Zolfo, 53, of Crown Point, Ind., was with her daughter and husband on Michigan Avenue Wednesday paying to rent three Divvy bikes to tour the city. She had rented a bike a few months ago and hadn't noticed the fare had increased since then fr...

Chicago Public Schools' top attorney said Wednesday that the district is in talks with financial institutions over its outstanding debt, even as the school board was set to vote on the issuance of more than $1 billion in long-term bonds.

Plenty of top-end music acts were slumming it at this year's Taste of Chicago - at least by the standards of their normal concert contracts.

Target says it had no intention of offending anyone by selling a women's shirt with the word "Trophy" written on the front of it.

One man was killed and five other people were wounded in shootings on the South and West sides since about 8 a.m. Tuesday, according to authorities.