Andrew Martin

The cross-country search for a San Diego man suspected of a two-week killing spree that includes Chicago real estate magnate Lee Miglin continued Sunday, though authorities reported no confirmed sightings...

Lee Miglin's life was rags-to-riches inspiring, his death almost impossible to comprehend. The 72-year-old was hacked by a garden implement, slashed and beaten over and over, his throat cut, his...

When Andrew Cunanan, the high school senior voted Least Likely to Be Forgotten, was treated to a going-away party in late April, he had a reputation in San Diego's gay...

The Dixmoor Park District currently collects nearly $250,000 in taxes. Until recently, it listed as many as 59 officers on its police force, including, federal prosecutors alleged Friday, a leader...

Officials of the firm that published the books of crime novelist Eugene Izzi said Wednesday they weren't aware he had written a manuscript about a near-murder that closely parallels his...

Big-city police departments across the country, including Chicago's, are announcing drops in reported crimes and homicides, but the good news is raising two questions: Why is crime going down, and...

An Illinois Appellate Court has reversed the conviction of a Waukegan man sentenced to life in prison for the 1992 rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl. Citing four minor...

The Cook family of La Paz, Ind., never had any reason to suspect that their father's life was in danger when the ringing of a phone pierced the early-morning quiet...

At least four people were reported shot. Six hundred and fifty were arrested. Thirty-eight stores were broken into and some of them were looted. Fifty-eight police cars were damaged, many...

(This is one of five stories and six tables associated with the release of the 1995 Illinois State Police crime report.) Following a promising national trend, reported crime in both...