A Chicago alderman says firefighters were held at gunpoint during an attempted vehicle theft outside a firehouse on the Far ...

A new class of Chicago firefighters, EMTs and paramedics graduated from the academy in a ceremony Monday morning at Navy Pier ...

A fire damaged a unit in a high-rise apartment in Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood Sunday morning.

A fire triggered alarms at multiple buildings in downtown Chicago over the weekend.

Chicago Fire Department crews responded to a large church fire and partial collapse on Thanksgiving on the city's South Side, ...

Dozens of people were injured in a crash involving a Chicago transit train Thursday morning, authorities said. A Chicago Transit Authority train collided with a snow-fire plow around 10:35 a.m. local ...

Harvey Firemen’s Association Local 471 said the department dropped from 37 to 15 staff since the first round of furloughs ...

Two Chicago police officers, a city firefighter and a former Water Department employee have been indicted on federal fraud charges alleging they lied about their employment and income for years to ...

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Six people left the dining room on the 95th floor of Chicago’s famed Hancock building early Friday, stepped into an express elevator and fell 84 floors before they were rescued by firefighters who had ...

“We’re going to have a lot of turnover and a lot craziness going on in the CFD [Chicago Fire Department] from the top, where people are being cut and moved, and everything’s going to get shaken up ...