Two Cook County Sheriff's officers reached under trash bins in an alley just before midnight in Chicago's crime-heavy Austin neighborhood, looking for a hidden gun.
Six players were suspended and a seventh fined by Major League Baseball (MLB) on Saturday following Thursday's benches-clearing brawl between the Chicago White Sox and Kansas City Royals.
An Indonesian court found a young U.S. couple guilty on Tuesday of murdering the woman's mother and stuffing her battered body into a suitcase on the resort island of Bali.
Chicago officials on Friday started collecting the lawn chairs, card tables and other items placed on city streets by residents who sought to reserve their parking spaces - a controversial winter custom known as "dibs."
The alleged head of the Chicago-area branch of a Mexican drug cartel faces federal charges with seven others for a plot that involved carrying heroin and cocaine from Mexico to the United States in passenger buses, prosecutors said on Wednesday.
Chicago city council members have proposed a ban on the use of chokeholds by police officers working within city limits in an expansive proposal coming in the wake of the chokehold death of an unarmed black man being arrested in New York.
U.S. airports reported hundreds of residual flight cancellations on Saturday, a day after an employee apparently set a Chicago-area air traffic control center on fire and tried to take his own life.
U.S. fast-food workers staged protests in some 150 cities on Thursday in a fight for higher pay, and organizers said more than 450 were arrested from Manhattan's Times Square to Los Angeles.
Six people were killed and 22 wounded in new gun violence that hit Chicago over Memorial Day weekend, UPI reported. On Friday evening, a 17-year-old girl was shot in the head and pronounced dead at the scene, and 18-year-old man was shot in the chest in the same incident. Another man later that evening was shot and killed.
Nineteen teenagers have been arrested following a disturbance that shut down the Ford City Mall and left two people with minor injuries in Chicago on Saturday
18-year old Janay McFarlane, mother of a baby boy was shot and killed on Friday in a Chicago suburb just hours after her younger sister sat on the stage behind President Obama, who was listening to him push for gun control.
