Andrew Martin

(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 Cook...

A painfully shy high school student on that day in 1958, Theodore J. Kaczynski found the most popular students in Mr. McCaleb's chemistry class suddenly paying attention to him. What...

Gary Gauger spent one spring day in 1993 making last-minute preparations to plant organically grown vegetable seedlings on his parents' McHenry County farm. A day later, Gauger found himself at...

Two decades ago, when Wanda Krzyzanowski was healthier and her mother and husband were still alive, she lived in a neatly maintained three-flat that was like many others in her...

Just watching Wanda Krzyzanowski walk the half-block from her West Side home to the corner grocery was a painful experience, her neighbors said Monday. With one leg badly swollen, Krzyzanowski,...

Under the protective cover of 14 blankets, "Q," as much of a name as he would give, dozed through the weekend of record cold temperatures on Lower Wacker Drive in...

Daniel Andre Green and Larry Martin Demery didn't realize who lay dead in the passenger seat of the car they had just stolen until a half-hour after they shot the...

Jacqueline Annette Williams showed up at a friend's basement apartment in Villa Park covered with blood and clutching a tired and frightened 7-year-old boy, according to law enforcement sources. The...