Illinois

Chicago is doubling down on efforts to enforce its emergency coronavirus travel order, as officials will now be reviewing the social media posts of possible violators as the pandemic continues.

Authorities were able to save 74 other cats from her home, police said.

The brother was coming to his sister’s aid during an argument between she and her boyfriend when the boyfriend fired shots at the 21-year-old brother, Chicago police said.

Vincent Sessler, 25, is charged with disorderly conduct and battery to a peace officer after he allegedly spit in an officer's coffee at the Dunkin Donuts where he was working. The director of the Illinois State Police says that troopers "deserve better than this insulting and dangerous treatment."

A 9-year-old boy was shot and killed Friday evening near the former Cabrini Green housing projects on the Near North Side.

A man is accused of shooting at Chicago police officers, wounding three, while in transport to a station Thursday on the Northwest Side.

Fifteen people were shot Tuesday evening outside a funeral home in Gresham on the South Side — the largest number of victims in a single Chicago shooting in recent memory.

Chicago police say a group of armed children, ages 10 to 17, carjacked a CPS teacher and at least 15 other people since late June.

Ten people were killed and 60 others, including 10 minors, were wounded in shootings across Chicago over the weekend.

Teantrun Davis, 21, is charged with shooting a five-month-old baby boy and two men in Chicago on Thursday.

A 23-year-old man charged with beating his son to death in Bronzeville was denied bail Friday.

Video captured an Illinois woman allegedly attacking another Home Depot customer during an argument over wearing a face mask.

Fifteen people were killed and 64 others wounded in shootings across Chicago over the Fourth of July weekend.

A northern Illinois auto museum has no plan to stop displaying a Dodge Charger from the “Dukes of Hazzard” television show with the Confederate battle flag painted atop the vehicle.

Six Chicago children have been shot dead in the past week, including Mekhi James, 3; Sincere Gaston, 1; and Lena Nunez, 10.

A toddler boy was shot and killed in Englewood on Saturday afternoon. The car carrying the child had visible bullet holes along one side and police said given the number of bullets, the shooting did not seem to be random.

Chicago saw its highest number of gun violence victims in a single weekend this year with 104 people shot across the city from Friday evening to Monday morning, 15 of them fatally. Five of those killed were minors.