Former Chicago alderman Carrie Austin was indicted for allegedly receiving personal benefits from contractors linked to a $49 ...

CHICAGO — A federal judge on Wednesday ruled that former Chicago Ald. Carrie Austin is medically unfit to stand trial on corruption charges, likely ending a case that first came to light when ...

Disappointment over Austin being found medically unfit to stand trial. Also, stolen art during the Holocaust, accessory dwelling units, NASCAR, ignorance of Puerto Ricans' American status and ...

An Austin shooting left a man dead in the 5600-block of West Division Street on Saturday night, the Chicago Police Department said.

Four men were injured in a West Side shooting Sunday on West Ferdinand Street in South Austin, Chicago police said.

Donnell Wyatt, 20, of Chicago, was charged with first-degree murder after he allegedly shot another man in the head during an argument in the Austin neighborhood over the weekend.

Longtime criminal defense attorney Thomas Anthony Durkin, known as a fierce advocate for his clients who enjoyed holding the government accountable for overstepping authority in everything from ...

Multiple gunmen got out of a vehicle and fired shots at a group of men on Sunday in the South Austin neighborhood, leaving four people injured.

4 shot in Austin, all in good condition The four men were standing on a sidewalk Sunday afternoon when an unknown car pulled up and three people, armed with handguns, got out and fired shots at them.

A man and a woman were wounded in a drive-by shooting early Tuesday on Chicago’s West Side. Four people in a black vehicle opened fire as the victims were walking around 2:30 a.m. on North ...

A Humboldt Park man has been charged with murder in connection to the fatal fire that killed four people — including a 5-year-old boy — in the Austin neighborhood late last month.