Andrew Fegelman

A Rockford man was being held by South Chicago Heights police Thursday in the execution-style slayings of a man and a woman found bound and shot in a garage of...

State and federal inspectors began the process Monday of assessing the damage caused to Cook and Du Page Counties by last week`s heavy rain and its aftermath of flooding. A...

Two children were killed and three other people, all members of the same family, were injured Tuesday afternoon in a fiery, one-car crash on Int. Hwy. 57 south of 104th...

Gary Mayor Richard Hatcher, who achieved national prominence in 1967 when he became one of the first black chief executives of a large northern industrial city, has lost his bid...

Plans by Robert Tezak, the politically influential coroner of Will County, to buy two popular Joliet radio stations met the first public objections Tuesday from opponents who contended that Tezak...

A man convicted of the murder in 1984 of a South Side body shop owner was sentenced to death Wednesday for the slaying that occurred during a 16-month crime spree....

John Trotter was called a drifter and ''a parasite'' Tuesday by a judge who sentenced him to 70 years in prison for the murder of an 83-year-old woman Trotter had...

Civil service charges brought against a Gary police officer for comments he made to a community group about a police shortage in the crime-plagued city were dismissed by a hearing...

Two elementary schools closed for three weeks because of a teacher`s strike in Berkeley will reopen Monday using substitute teachers. According to Supt. Neil Winebrenner, the district has hired 28...

Petitions were filed Monday in Du Page County to put on the Nov. 4 ballot a referendum proposal designed to block construction of a new stadium for the Chicago White...