Growing up in Clay County, Iowa – home of “the world’s greatest county fair” – I looked forward to fair week all year long.

A mass shooting left 18 people shot, four fatally, near a restaurant in River North Wednesday night, Chicago police said. The shooting took place at about 11:02 p.m. in the 300-block of West Chicago ...

Gunfire from a passing car ripped into a crowd of partygoers in the River North neighborhood, the police said.