Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The powerful Monday storm that toppled trees, knocked power out and may have spawned a tornado in Rogers Park was a derecho. What ...

The ice storm that you remember glazed the Chicago area on Jan. 23-24, 1965, and is considered by utility companies to be one of the worst on record, second only to one on New Year’s Day 1948. Damage ...

Chicago has seen fewer murders so far this year than any year since 1965, officials said. The city finished November down 25 percent in shootings, 20 percent in murders and 15 percent in overall crime ...

Chicago recorded 435 homicides in 2010, marking the city’s lowest murder rate in 45 years, according to preliminary statistics released Saturday by the Chicago Police Department. The 2010 total was ...

Chicago is on pace to see its fewest murders in a half-century, officials said, marking a major turning point just one year after the violence-plagued city logged 500 homicides — the most of any city ...

The weather event known as a derecho is a widespread summer storm capable of traveling thousands of miles with hurricane-force winds of up to 100 mph. A Spanish word, derecho (deh-ray’-cho) is the ...