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A woman is desperately searching for her two dogs after the vehicle they were in was stolen from Chicago’s River North neighborhood on Thursday afternoon.

The vehicle pinned Angela Short, 14, against a Walgreens sign, the police report states. The child was rushed to Comer Children’s Hospital and pronounced dead. Dwayne Owens has been charged with DUI.

Chicago is already trying an initiative to dispatch clinicians with officers in some emergencies where a subject is having a mental health crisis.

A teenage girl was killed and three others were injured Friday evening when two vehicles collided in the city’s Auburn Gresham neighborhood, causing one of...

The pilot mental health program launched last fall in the city and region has helped many people, but restrictions on availability and a lack of providers the teams are able to work with has reduced its effectiveness.

The team aims to prevent escalation sometimes seen when police respond to someone with a mental health crisis.

The Crisis Assistance Response and Engagement program launched has helped many, officials said, but the program has been limited in many ways.

Three teens were shot in an attack in Back of the Yards, and three men were wounded in the Burnside neighborhood.

He liked the flexibility of consulting, working at different times for Easterseals, the Chicago Public Schools, PepsiCo and Potbelly.

Video footage shows a brazen shoplifter wearing an ankle monitor as he casually helps himself to an entire bag of liquor and other items at a Target store in Chicago while staff stand by and do nothing.