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A Chicago man said his enthusiasm for cold-weather swimming has led to multiple encounters with police and firefighters when concerned witnesses call 911.
Seven children were taken to Chicago hospitals after a student discharged an unidentified liquid, reported as pepper spray, in an elementary school cafeteria.
Authorities in Chicago said a 20-year-old man died after he jumped out of an ambulance that was bringing him to a Far Northwest Side hospital.
Power was largely restored in southwest Chicago early Sunday after a freight train derailed and took out a utility pole, a ComEd official said.
Police said they were searching for suspects in a drive-by shooting on the South Side of Chicago that killed two men and wounded five teenage boys.
The city of Chicago went to court Thursday over an issue in a Lincoln Park high-rise that kept residents without heat or hot water, officials say.
Three men treading water in Lake Michigan during a driving thunderstorm were rescued by a worried wife who went looking for them, Chicago officials said.
A man with 32 previous arrests has been charged with stealing an ambulance in Chicago while paramedics worked on a relative in the back, officials said.
Birmingham, Ala., Mayor Larry Langford was found guilty on all 60 federal counts in a bribery case against him.
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