Andrew Martin

Police and state child-welfare officials are investigating the death of a 5-month-old West Side infant whose mother said she found him lifeless in his crib after having left him alone...

A 76-year-old man from Harwood Heights lost control of his car in the parking lot of a Norridge strip mall Friday morning, crashing into 11 other vehicles before plowing through...

Wrong place, wrong time, wrong role model. That, neighbors and friends say, is the fatal mix that landed a Bolingbrook teenager before a Juvenile Court judge Monday, who found probable...

The whole truth about what happened under the "L" tracks in River North early on July 30 died when Joseph Gould, a homeless black man with a little cocaine and...

Each year, about 4 million visitors flock to Chicago for meetings and conventions to talk about everything from baseballs and in-line skates to steaks and sushi. They drop about $3.5...

Almost a year ago, a child nicknamed "Yummy" shocked a nation already numbed by violence. The boy, 11-year-old Robert Sandifer of Chicago's South Side, exposed how quickly urban ills-poverty, gangs,...

The steady stream of visitors to his neighbor's two-flat on the Northwest Side indicated to Rev. Oscar Diaz that something terrible must have happened. "People were coming and going at...

Oceanan Rodgers spent only a few months of her 3 1/2 years of life with her parents. The first time she lived with them, right after she was born, Oceanan...