Like something straight from every acrophobic's nightmare, one of the glass enclosures off the 103rd floor of the Willis (nee Sears) Tower in Chicago shattered yesterday while a family was standing on it.

Jim Karr, a Chicago coffee expert who worked at Intelligenstia Coffee and later founded a coffee start-up, died Saturday afternoon after the large coffee machine he was setting up fell on top of him.

Every year since 1987, The University of Chicago has hosted a campuswide scavenger hunt called Scav that will validate to your speculation that smart college kids are always up to some awesomely weird insider shit. The event is on its last day and the clues this year are typically esoteric.

Second Amendment Man is stunned to learn that a concealed carry permit doesn't let him take his gun out and point it at people he's mad at, then hide it from the cops.

Chief Keef's neighbors spoke to reporters yesterday following the shooting at his manager's Northfield home. "We all knew that something bad was going to happen at that house," trembled one resident, withholding her name for fear of retaliation.

Yesterday morning, Chicago police detained "drill" rap sensation Chief Keef—born Keith Cozart—in connection with a shooting in suburban Northfield, Ill. Hours earlier, Keef had posted photos of himself with fellow rapper Ballout posing with a submachine gun, a semi-automatic rifle, and three loaded Rugers. Just in case you were inclined to presume Keef's innocence.

Early Wednesday morning, Chief Keef was reportedly involved in a shooting at a home in Northfield, Ill. that left at least one person hospitalized

Early Monday morning, a train in Chicago jumped the rails and crashed into an escalator at O'Hare International Airport, injuring more than 30 people. Here's video from the exact moment of impact.

A Chicago train car derailed early Monday morning, barreling through the O'Hare Airport station and running halfway up a flight of stairs before coming to a stop.

Shootouts all across Chicago last night left at least ten people injured, according to city authorities. Police opened fire on one fleeing gunman, 19-year-old Junior Adziwonou, as officers chased him on foot through Englewood on the South Side.

Phillip Seymour Hoffman's will was filed in a Manhattan Surrogate Court this morning, and his last wish was for his 10-year-old son to be raised somewhere with culture.

Would you pay $21 for a green tea? Well, if you were cultured, you would, you goddam heathen. But since we can't take you out anyplace nice, let's instead swig our swirled leaves with Ryan Sutton, the food critic for Bloomberg News and enjoyer of one fat night in Chicago.

Yesterday, WGN in Chicago aired a report about students developing an app that will help you expunge your criminal record. Great idea! Another good idea? Clearing your browsing history of any links to masturbation videos before going on the local news.

Antiviral is an occasional column in which we run down the worst hoaxes, pranks, Photoshops and straight-out lies blowing up on the internet.

[Ice forms as waves crash along the Lake Michigan shore on Monday in Chicago. Below-zero highs have returned to many parts of the Midwest, bringing wind chills ranging from the negative teens to 40s, school cancellations and sighs of resignation from residents who are weary of bundling up. Image via Kiichiro Sato/AP.]

A thief in Chicago managed to break halfway into a bar before he was stopped by his own stupidity: Instead of pushing, as the door's sign instructed, he spent several minutes pulling, eventually giving up and fleeing the scene.

Acclaimed molecular gastronomy chef Grant Achatz caused a stir over the weekend when he took to his Twitter account to ask his followers if a ban on babies was in order at his three-Michelin-starred Chicago eatery Alinea.

Police in Chicago say there were fewer murders in the Second City last year than in any year since 1965, and there were 30 percent fewer shooting victims than in 2012. There were probably fewer gun-related deaths than there were right-wing rants about how Chicago is hell on earth because of liberalism and gun control.

'Twas the weekend before Christmas, and all through the Snarf's Sandwich Shop in Chicago, not a creature was stirring — because management sent out an email on Sunday firing all the employees.