Judge rejects plea deal for former fugitive surgeon
For five years, former patients of Chicago surgeon Mark Weinberger's feared that the man they claim maimed them with unnecessary surgeries had made a clean getaway. In 2004, with hundreds...
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Jerry Archie Jr., 1928-2011
Jerry Archie Jr. was a cosmetologist working at a West Side beauty salon with his younger sister in 1949 when he met Maizelle Cummings, his sister's high school classmate and...
Contract for Dolton mayor’s daughter sets off firestorm
A proposal to award a million-dollar deal to a south suburban mayor's daughter prompted a trustee boycott and accusations of secrecy, but a revised contract was pushed through Monday night....
Mae Marvin, 1913-2011
Administrators at Kingsley Elementary School in Downers Grove didn't know what to make of Mae Marvin when she first applied for a teaching job, her family said. Mrs. Marvin, who...
4 shot after fight at Richton Park club
A fight inside a club in south suburban Richton Park led to a shooting late Saturday that injured four people, including a juvenile, police said. At 11:28 p.m., Richton Park...
Oak Lawn clerk claims fraud in petition drive
The signatures of hundreds of Oak Lawn residents were forged on petitions calling for a referendum to change structure of village government, city Clerk Jane Quinlan said in a letter...
Judge refuses to release George Ryan
The federal judge who sentenced former Gov. George Ryan to 61/2 years in prison in 2006 refused Tuesday to release him early from custody, saying that while she was saddened...
Teacher dies in fall from Palmer House stairwell
Megan Duskey was looking forward to a Halloween night out in Chicago with some of her best friends. The Chicago schoolteacher and a group of girlfriends she had known most...
Area Jewish organizations on alert
Two packages containing explosives, each bound for a different Jewish place of worship in Chicago, were intercepted, foiling what President Barack Obama on Friday called a "credible terrorist threat against...
Fear grows at NIU as remains found
Unease and fear hit the Northern Illinois University campus on Sunday as dormitories remained on lockdown and students waited to hear if remains found in a heavily wooded park belonged...