Angela Rozas

Antoin "Tony" Rezko, whose friendship and fundraising prowess helped shape the political careers of Gov. Rod Blagojevich and U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, was convicted Wednesday of using his political clout...

A Chicago police officer who is alleged to have beaten up a couple at a Niles bar this weekend has a history of threatening violence and abusing alcohol, court and...

When Richard J. Daley bought a vacation home in 1964 in Grand Beach, Mich., the seven-room, $41,000 house was supposed to allow the family to escape their responsibilities and celebrity...

The call came unexpectedly last August. The man on the line told Chicago Police Detective Salvador Esparza that his conscience was bothering him. More than a quarter-century before, the man...

A Michigan truck driver who slammed into the Cermak-Chinatown CTA station Friday night missed a scheduled stop to pick up a load in Champaign before the crash, arriving inexplicably in...

Chicago police were gearing up to fight the weekend's violence with a planned outdoor roll call Friday night. SWAT and other specialized units were expected to patrol the city's streets...

Gun violence that swept through swaths of Chicago over the weekend pressed into midweek Wednesday when five people were found slain in a South Side home. The afternoon crackle of...

Less than a week after Mersaides McCauley was killed by a parolee who had been charged with domestic battery and released, the Illinois Department of Corrections made sweeping changes to...

If Wayne Jackson wasn't at home, his family knew exactly what he was doing: working. That's all he ever did, his family said. The Tribune employee was fatally shot early...

Glenford Martinez was on parole for murder when he allegedly choked his former girlfriend, Mersaides McCauley, in November until she passed out. She filed charges, cut off ties with him...