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A suspected Auschwitz concentration camp guard and former Chicago resident was arrested Monday in Germany, according to a Nazi-hunting group. Prosecutors in Stuttgart did not name the 93-year-old man, but said he was arrested on "strong suspicion" of...

The 15 employees of the Southwest Organizing Project, a nonprofit community group on Chicago's Southwest Side, are housed in a small, shared office space when they aren't out in the community. They are out a lot in the neighborhoods, ones particularly...

Austin last week recorded its fifth homicide of the month, its 35th homicide of the year, a RedEye analysis of preliminary police data found. A 15-year-old boy was shot to death Dec. 20 in the 4800 block of West Quincy Street, police said. Austin,...

Nearly seven decades after he flew combat missions over Europe during World War II, Robert C. Buckley stood in his dress blue Air Force uniform on Wacker Drive Saturday morning, soaking up the respect and gratitude offered by hundreds of people who...

West Englewood saw two homicides in the last week, a RedEye analysis of preliminary police data found. On Monday, a 21-year-old man was shot to death in the 5700 block of South Elizabeth Street, police said. Four days earlier, a 27-year-old man was...

Chicago Police are searching for a man who sexually assaulted a woman Friday night in the Ashburn area. The woman, age 52, was walking in the 7900 block of South Western Avenue, on the border between the Wrightwood and Beverly View neighborhoods, when...

Greater Grand Crossing and the Lower West Side each recorded two homicides in the last week, a RedEye analysis of preliminary police data found. In Greater Grand Crossing, a 30-year-old man was shot to death Tuesday in the 7000 block of South Perry...

One man died and eight others were wounded in separate shooting attacks across the city Friday night and Saturday morning, police said. A 26-year-old man was shot on the 1300 block of West Washburne Avenue in the University Village / Little Italy...

A 15-year-old boy was wounded Wednesday night in a shooting on the Southwest Side, Chicago police said this morning. A gunman opened fire on the teen in the 3300 block of West 83rd Street in the Ashburn neighborhood just before 9 p.m. Wednesday, police...

Austin saw three homicides in two days this week, a RedEye analysis of preliminary police data found. On Tuesday, two men, ages 22 and 25, were shot to death in the 1200 block of North Mason Avenue, police said. Two days earlier, a 35-year-old man was...

New City and Woodlawn each saw two homicides in the last week, a RedEye analysis of preliminary police data found. On Saturday in Woodlawn, a man was shot to death in the 6200 block of South Rhodes Avenue and a 28-year-old woman was fatally shot in the...

Jack A. Lawrence, whose career as a cryptographer spanned nearly four decades, died Dec. 19 of pulmonary fibrosis at Riderwood Village, a Silver Spring retirement community. The longtime Columbia resident was 85. He was born and raised in Chicago, where...