Alexa Aguilar

It's noon and I'm still in my pajamas, hoping that neither baby will wake up before I finish writing. The house is a mess, the to-do list stretches long. Leaving...

Dr. Julie Jensen delivers hundreds of babies a year at Edward Hospital in Naperville. And at a hospital that markets itself for its proficiency at handling multiple births, it's not...

Incorporation: Founded in 1835, incorporated as a village in 1867 and as a city in 1887 How it got its name: Geneva's original settlers bandied about several suggestions, including Campbell...

A whole suburban school district closed Thursday, the latest in a spate of violence threats and strong reactions. Administrators at Dolton School District 149 shut down five elementary schools and...

With everything in his life coming together, Thomas Dalof went out Friday night to celebrate with a couple of friends. He had just been accepted into the Chicago Fire Department...

Samantha Dehner, wearing a Northern Illinois University sweat shirt and sitting in a wheelchair, was leaving Kishwaukee Community Hospital Monday afternoon and planned to speak publicly for the first time...

While answers remained elusive about what drove a graduate student to open fire last week in a crowded university lecture hall, many turned to faith Sunday as they mourned the...

The five women came to the suburban clothing store for such ordinary reasons. One, the mother of a disabled child, wanted to find something nice to wear for a rare...

Residents jumped from second-floor balconies to escape a weekend fire in an Oak Forest apartment complex that killed two adults and a child, and police on Sunday questioned two men...

Inside her Lombard home, Rose Tani kept a shrine to her astronaut son filled with newspaper clippings of his recent launch, photos of him holding his two children and a...