Allan Johnson

Eight days ago, just outside the Dirksen Federal Building courtroom where a jury had been picked in Jeffrey Erickson`s bank-robbery trial, his mother, June, pulled her son`s attorney to the...

From the start, said Joe Pena police chief of tiny East Dundee, something seemed strange about the terrifying story two teenage boys wove of a drive-by shooting by gang members...

A newly established commission will work with village officials and businesses, advising them on the needs of the disabled as well as how to comply with the Americans with Disabilities...

The four store managers apprehensively surveyed the half-empty parking lot and rows of shuttered businesses Friday along Madison Street on the West Side. On an average Friday, the sidewalks of...

When Prospect High School Principal John Ashenfelter called an assembly of students Wednesday, he had no doubt what he wanted to accomplish: ease racial tensions in the school and encourage...

Marc Price issues the following warning to Aurora residents who bypass his performances at the Laugh Factory this weekend: ''I will be forced to buy drugs, beat up a transvestite...

''Yes, this is a beautiful day to die. . . . I`m not nervous at all, not a bit.'' Those words were written in a diary by Wayne T. Chaney...

Like boxers warily assessing their opponent, commuters sparred with the Kennedy Expressway on Monday and emerged unbloodied. But then, it was only the first round of a three-year fight. Two...

The parent of Marshall Field & Co., citing a 40 percent drop in earnings during its most recent quarter, announced Monday it will eliminate 630 jobs from its department store...

Des Plaines is washing its hands, at least for now, of any more attempts to block plans for a waste transfer station near the community, a city official said Monday....