Chicago’s proposed transit overhaul leaves key problems intact, critics warn—jeopardizing integration, equity and oversight of multibillion-dollar projects.

The Brief A 69-year-old woman was hit and killed by an SUV in the South Loop on Sunday morning. The driver, a 35-year-old woman, was taken into custody, police said.

A worker was injured when a sidewalk collapsed beneath him Saturday in the Loop. The worker fell one floor below street level and was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in fair condition.

Part of a sidewalk near West Jackson Boulevard and South Financial Plaza in the Loop collapsed Saturday morning, with a service lift standing on top of it falling into the parking garage below. The… ...

A son of drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman pled guilty in a U.S. drug trafficking case at a hearing in Chicago Friday.

Ovidio Guzman Lopez, son of Mexican drug kingpin ‘El Chapo,' pleads guilty to U.S. drug trafficking charges in Chicago.

A son of notorious Mexican drug kingpin “El Chapo” pleaded guilty Friday to U.S. drug trafficking charges. He is the first of El Chapo’s sons to enter a plea deal.

CHICAGO – One of the sons of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman could spend the rest of his life in prison after pleading guilty Friday in federal court in Chicago to helping his father and brothers ...