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CHICAGO -- It’s difficult enough to walk into an emergency room after a sexual assault, and it might not take much to make a survivor reconsider that decision.

The director of Netflix's new Kanye West documentary was left disappointed -- though not surprised -- by the controversial rapper's last-minute demand to recut a movie decades in the making, he told AFP. Clarence "Coodie" Simmons started following his friend West with a camera in 2001, curious to see how…

Two of the fatal shootings occurred in Woodlawn.

CHICAGO — Derrick Jones Jr. spent the majority of his first game back on the court with the Chicago Bulls in a varying degree of pain.

A 6-year-old girl and a 9-year-old girl were ejected from the SUV, police said. They were both taken to Comer Children’s Hospital in critical condition.

A 45-year-old man was in an alley in the 5900 block of South Washtenaw Avenue when someone shot him in the back of the head.

The San Antonio Spurs and Goran Dragic are expected to negotiate a contract buyout in the coming week, clearing the way for a formidable list of free agent suitors for Dragic that now include the Los Angeles Lakers and Golden State Warriors, sources ...

Officer James Hunt has been assigned to desk duty following a civilian complaint that took place during the George Floyd protests in 2020.

The sounds of courting barred owls, big shed antlers, overwintering sandhill cranes and a short Black Lake sturgeon season are among the notes from around Chicago outdoors.