Andrew Fegelman

Republican primary foes Edward Vrdolyak and Dr. Herbert Sohn put their mayoral campaigns on hold Wednesday as they prepared for an election canvass Thursday that will-at least temporarily-decide their tight...

Kenneth Cullen, the Chicago police officer accused of killing a 22-year-old man in 1984, was released from Cook County Jail after posting $5,000 bond, jail officials said on Thursday. Cullen`s...

On Feb. 18, 1984, Raymond McCaffrey was shot dead on the street after a traffic dispute. The gunman, accompanied by a woman, sped off. On Wednesday, Kenneth Cullen, a 22-year...

A Cicero couple were killed Wednesday in Oak Park when, according to police, their car was rammed by a pickpocket suspect with an extensive arrest record who ran a red...

Charles Connor, a Will County candidate for state`s attorney and self-described reformer of the county Republican Party, looked at the early election results Tuesday night and saw himself ahead, but...

Edward Burmila, the Republican Party`s slated candidate for Will County state`s attorney, beat Mayor Charles Connor of Joliet by 121 votes Tuesday, and all but one of Connor`s dissident slate...

A Downstate minister who taught English classes at the Vienna Correctional Center for seven years has been charged with providing inmates with marijuana, and a guard at Stateville prison in...

Though the presidential nominating express will barrel into Illinois in six weeks, local primaries are shaping up that could alter the political tenor of Chicago and other parts of the...

A member of the Joliet Junior College Board offered a $1,000 bribe to a supervisor at a state penal facility for juveniles in an effort to arrange a job transfer...

A man accused of violating Oak Park`s handgun ban asked for a jury trial Tuesday rather than accept a deal offered by the village, which has been wrestling with a...