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A new indictment alleges that Chicago native Brandon Miller, a soldier at Fort Campbell in Kentucky, conspired with soldiers Jarius Brunson and Demarcus Adams to buy guns in Kentucky and Tennessee and supply Miller’s associates here.

CHICAGO — DeMar DeRozan was fuming inside.

Six days before Opening Day, the Dodgers and White Sox agreed to a trade that sends closer Craig Kimbrel to Los Angeles for outfielder AJ Pollock. The deal, which was first reported by MLB.com’s Mark Feinsand, is a surprising one because of the timing and lack of rumors about talks…

An 18-year-old man accused of fatally shooting a man and wounding a girl at a suburban Chicago shopping mall is charged with murder

CHICAGO — Despite being the face of their investment group, the Ricketts family, owners of the Chicago Cubs, will not have a controlling stake in Chelsea FC if their bid for the English soccer giant succeeds, a spokesman said Friday.

The murders happened in in Gresham, South Shore and the Austin neighborhoods.

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The drop in shootings has been greatest in 15 of the city’s most violent community areas. Those neighborhoods still accounted for 64% of the city’s homicides and 60% of the people shot.

Twelve people, including three U.S. Army soldiers, are accused in a large-scale gun trafficking ring that prosecutors allege supplied nearly 100 guns to gang members in Chicago

Whitney Young high school says in email to students teacher hung doll from projector string and was challenged by Black colleague

It was the first census after World War II. The baby boom had begun. The Great Migration of Black residents from the Jim Crow South to places like Detroit and Chicago was in full swing. And some industrial cities reached their peak populations before Americans started moving to the suburbs.