Evanston

Evanston, Illinois, on Monday became the first U.S. city to make reparations available to its Black residents for past discrimination and the lingering effects of slavery.

A Metra train fatally struck a pedestrian Tuesday afternoon in suburban Evanston.

Three men were shot, two of them fatally, Friday afternoon in north suburban Evanston, about a block from Evanston Township High School.

Two people were displaced from their home after a fire broke out in their attic Friday in north suburban Evanston.

Eleven people were displaced after a fire broke out in an apartment kitchen Friday evening in suburban Evanston.

A 15-year-old girl who was one of seven people shot last month in a spree that spanned from Chicago to Evanston has died.

Cheerleader Hayden Richardson says Northwestern University forced her and other women to mingle with donors who groped her breasts and buttocks, and that administrators tried to cover up the harrassment.

Newly released police video shows Evanston officers fatally shooting a man suspected of killing four people and wounding three others during a shooting spree in Chicago and the north suburb earlier this month.

Marta Torres, 61, died Saturday evening, days after she was shot by a gunman at an IHOP in Evanston, near the end of a senseless shooting spree which spanned from the South Side of Chicago to the north suburb.

A woman who was shot while being held hostage in an Evanston IHOP during a deadly shooting spree on Jan. 9 has died.

A 15-year-old girl is fighting for her life right now, and a family travelled to Chicago from China for their son who was killed by an enraged serial shooter. 

A woman was critically injured in a fire at an apartment building Thursday in north suburban Evanston.

Five people were killed in Chicago this weekend; three were the random victims of a man on a shooting rampage. At least 24 others were wounded in gun violence across the city.

Jason Nightengale -- the man who rampaged across Chicago's South Side on Saturday, killing three people and wounding four others -- posted bizarre videos on social media in the days and hours leading up to the rampage. In one video just two days before the shooting rampage, he held a gun to the camera and muttered, "no music, no music, I don't need no seatbelt, I'm coming, girl."

A man named Jason Nightengale randomly killed three people in Chicago, wounded several others, shot a woman at an IHOP in Evanston, and got into a shootout with police before he was shot and killed Saturday night, police said.