a man wearing a T-shirt that says ‘I’m American by choice’ asks a group of fortysomethings. ‘Chicago,’ one of them replies.

A tire shredded and flew off of a Chicago Fire Department truck and caused a window of another vehicle to shatter Saturday afternoon on the city's Northwest Side, Chicago police said.

Flames were already shooting through the roof of a house Saturday in Hawthorn Woods when firefighters arrived. Because the neighborhood has no fire hydrants, firefighters had to bring water with them.

A man adopted as a baby now helps his long-lost mother run the bakery he was a regular at before learning she owned it.