The Latest Breaking News from Chicago

CHICAGO — A 19-year-old man is accused of a shooting that wounded a police dog and an officer on the U.S. Marshals Service as he was being arrested Thursday afternoon on the Northwest Side, prosecutors said in court Saturday.

CHICAGO — The Cardinals went into the first game of Saturday’s doubleheader hoping right-hander Johan Oviedo could give them his best for 100 pitches, not thinking that one of the worst calls would help take the game from them.

CHICAGO — A second probable case of monkeypox was found in Chicago, the Illinois Department of Public Health said Friday evening.

Police say a Chicago man has been charged in the shootings of a U.S. marshal and his police dog who were wounded during an exchange of gunfire while serving a warrant

Three of the wounded were shot in separate attacks within 30 minutes in the 10th District.

I see the violence, and sometimes I’m just glad I’m gone.

With festival season upon us, we can expect the cyclone fencing around much of Grant Park to remain, making Chicago’s glorious front yard on the lake look more like a deserted prison camp.

A spokesman for the Illinois Department of Public Health said the second person tested positive at a state lab but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may not confirm the case until Monday.

CHICAGO — A day after a loss at Wrigley Field that spotlighted what they’re missing, the Cardinals authored a win as complete and thorough as any this season.

The city had 35 such attacks in 2021. And with 226 attacks statewide, Illinois landed at seventh in the state rankings.

CHICAGO — Federal prosecutors are asking for up to 34 years in prison for a former Indian movie producer who pleaded guilty to running a Chicago-based sex-trafficking ring that lured unsuspecting young actresses from their home country to the U.S., where authorities said they were forced into prostitution, physically abused…