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Russell recently completed a nine month apprenticeship with the CTA designed for people returning from prison. He’s been offered a permanent job. “I mean this is the best thing that’s ever happened to me.  If it wasn’t for this program I don’t know what I’d be doing,” said Russell.

Nineteen teenagers have been arrested following a disturbance that shut down a Chicago shopping mall and left two people with minor injuries.

CPS officials are refusing to say whether kids gunned down in the city are public school students.

Authorities in Chicago are naming a drug kingpin in Mexico as the city's Public Enemy No. 1 — a label first given to gangster Al Capone and one that hasn't been used since Prohibition.

The Indiana killer who was mistakenly released following a Chicago court appearance was back in custody Saturday after authorities tracked him down.

After a year in which Chicago's death toll surpassed 500, the bloodshed has continued in 2013 at a rate of more than one killing a day. It was the city's deadliest January in more than a decade.

Police are hunting for a convicted murderer after he was mistakenly released from custody in Chicago, where he was sent to face a drug charge while serving a 60-year prison sentence in Indiana.