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Roberto Herencia occasionally rides to work on one of the four Harley-Davidson motorcycles he keeps in his "man cave," a Glenview storage facility equipped with a red couch, a TV and a 6-foot lucha libre mask, an icon of Mexican wrestling.    When headed...

The foreclosed home on Kenmore Street in Aurora was an outdated, unkempt eyesore until crews arrived this fall, performing thousands of dollars of work to make it attractive and modern, inside and out. But it wasn't until workers walked across the...

An off-duty Chicago Police lieutenant in the drive-through lane of a Northwest Side bank called 911 when he saw it being robbed by a man also suspected in four previous robberies and an attempted robbery, authorities said today. Charlie Montalvo, 36,...

Three people were being held in connection with a bank robbery in the city's Bucktown neighborhood this morning, authorities said. The robbery of a FirstMerit Bank branch, 2130 W. North Ave., occurred before 10:30 a.m., said FBI Chicago office...

Federal authorities today charged two Chicago men accused of stealing more than $15,000 from a Bucktown neighborhood bank in a daylight holdup this week. The men, Demetrius Patterson and Quinton Vaughn, along with a juvenile were apprehended by Chicago...

The village of Gurnee has become the owner of a golf course that otherwise could have become a defunct business – but Mayor Kristina Kovarik …...

UPDATE May 20: WLS has info and a great description of what happened: “It was interesting, the offender with the money was throwing money at the officer, trying to distract him,’’ Mirabelli said. “It was like a movie.’’...

By Becky Yerak | Midwest Bank, a $3.2 billion-asset lender that was among the first community banks to receive federal bailout funds, was seized by U.S. banking regulators Friday after failing to raise the capital it needed to stay independent. Its...