Andrew L. Wang

Careless smoking is being blamed for weekend fires that killed two 95-year-olds on Chicago's South Side and in suburban Mt. Prospect. Both residences lacked working smoking detectors, fire officials said....

When a ground-shaking crash rocked Chicago's Morgan Park neighborhood Sunday afternoon, residents knew something awful had happened, and they were right--an ambulance headed down West 111th Street had collided with...

Naperville officials say AT&T may have deliberately soured a video services deal with the city as part of a strategy to show federal lawmakers that it's not feasible to sign...

Two days after a bullet took the life of 11-year-old Darian Shellie as she played video games in the basement of her father's North Chicago home, Byron Johnson hasn't slept...

A Chicago police narcotics officer was attacked and injured by a dog Sunday afternoon as he questioned people after an undercover operation on the West Side, police said. The incident...

Lake Michigan storms created turbulent waters that overturned at least seven sailboats Sunday. The bad weather struck about 11:30 a.m., Chicago police said, taking out seven of 10 boats competing...

Marie Campbell pursed her lips and turned her eyes away from the camera in Bond Court on Monday as a judge read the charge against her: child endangerment. She stood...

The longtime principal of Farragut High School is under investigation for allegedly rigging grades for his star soccer players over the past five years and pressuring teachers to keep quiet,...

A day after he shot and injured his two landlords when they tried to evict him, a fugitive from Mundelein was killed by police Tuesday as he fled west on...

Ryan Meinken spent much of Memorial Day polishing the sports car he got for being an honor roll student at Carmel High School in Mundelein. By evening, he was dead,...