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Police have a new “Entertainment Detail” to patrol the Lakeview's vibrant nightlife scene. But how bad is crime in an area that has shootings and homicides in the single digits?

Crime stats suggest Kenwood is not particularly dangerous. But there's a lot more going on beyond the stats themselves.

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A suburban Chicago man is accused of jumping into a car that had been left idling and driving away with a baby in the backseat.Adan Ozuna was charged Friday with unlawful possession of a stolen motor vehicle and endangering the life of a child.Police in the northwest suburb of Bensenville say a man

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Chicago police are investigating a string of robberies of cab drivers by young women.

Weeks after a pair of bank robbers made a daring escape from a downtown Chicago high-rise correctional center, police said Friday they captured the last of the two men.