Andrew Gottesman

Chicago police were trying to figure out what happened to a family of four Laotian immigrants whose bodies were found in their North Side apartment Thursday. The bodies, apparently a...

Evanston's Central Street looked ready for a ghost town's 4th of July parade on Sunday. Lounge chairs and picnic blankets lined the route, but there were no people. There also...

Even as the skies cleared and life returned to normal Wednesday, government officials scurried to help clean up the mess left by two days of violent thunderstorms. Mayor Richard Daley,...

David Hales became director of the Lincoln Park Zoo last year amid great fanfare and even greater expectations. He replaced the widely popular Lester Fisher, who retired after being in...

The details surrounding 5 1/2-month-old Ariel Hill's death, revealed Friday in Bond Court, were excruciating. A mother, upset that her baby was wet and crying, scalded the malnourished little girl...

Chicago police Thursday were investigating the death of a 5 1/2-month-old girl who died Wednesday after being scalded with boiling water Tuesday night. Officials were questioning Ariel Hill's parents in...

Simply put, Joseph Wallace's well-being came second-in keeping with state laws that instruct child welfare workers and judges to reunite families whenever possible. Now Joseph, age 3, is dead. There...

Plenty of people said they tried to love and safeguard a little boy named Joseph Wallace. All of them-relatives, government officials and foster parents-failed. Each wanted most of all to...

The verdicts did not go on trial Sunday. In fact, many African-American parishioners on Chicago's West and South Sides said the Rodney King beating case hasn't been the subject of...

With people everywhere worried about crime in their streets, the efforts of a Southwest Side community group have raised questions that bother City Hall bureaucrats, politicians and police: Is a...