The girl died of asphyxiation and assault on Dec. 20 at her home in the 500 block of North Springfield Avenue. The mother, Marisol Vazquez, 37, told police she suffocated the child with a bed sheet and tried to drown herself in the bathtub.

Marisol Vazquez, 37, allegedly confessed to suffocating her daughter, Lucia Arevala, and told detectives that voices in her head told her to kill herself and her daughter.

A woman was charged in the killing of her 1-year-old daughter last month in the Humboldt Park neighborhood. Millions should prepare for disrupted travel and winter conditions as a fierce storm is set to bring ice,

A Chicago woman was arrested for the murder of a 1-year-old girl in the city's Garfield Park neighborhood, authorities said.