Andrew L. Wang

A University of Illinois at Chicago men's basketball player was recuperating Sunday, two days after being shot in the leg intervening in a quarrel between his sister and her boyfriend,...

At least a dozen people were homeless and 11 others were nursing injuries Sunday, a day after storms tore off roofs and shattered windows at apartment buildings in the western...

Authorities were investigating two separate fatal fires in Chicago, one Sunday morning in the Lakeview neighborhood on the North Side and one Saturday night in Englewood on the South Side....

Chicago police on Sunday questioned a homeless woman they consider a "person of interest" in setting a Wrigleyville fire that killed four friends and severely injured another, all of whom...

Four white crosses jutted from snow-covered ground along a road in Oswego, each bearing the name of a teenager killed there early Sunday in the crash of a car filled...

As the cold bore down on Chicago in recent days, Dovie Fort needed a better way to get around, so she bit the bullet. She rented a car. Saturday night...

One moment, the residential street in west suburban Riverside was quiet. The next, the terrible din of twisting metal filled the night air and shook nearby homes. "We were sitting...

Bears lineman Terry "Tank" Johnson pleaded not guilty to 10 misdemeanor gun charges at a brief hearing Tuesday morning in a Lake County courtroom. Johnson, 25, was arrested Dec. 14...

Two days after a West Side truck driver entered the offices of a downtown law firm and killed three people, the man's family and acquaintances called him a quietly religious...

A crackdown on gang confrontations at Mundelein High School this week has resulted in the arrests of 19 students, authorities said. Though such incidents are rare, officials said Wednesday, the...