Angela Rozas

Her family had hoped and prayed for a week that their "it girl" would be found alive. They believed Nailah Franklin's feisty, fighting spirit would give her the strength to...

Police are hoping that dental records will help identify the badly decomposed body of a woman found in Calumet City early Thursday in an area where police had been looking...

Orlando Jones, the top aide and godson of former Cook County Board President John Stroger, parlayed his connections into a lucrative career as a behind-the-scenes government consultant with ties stretching...

Just days after losing its state funding, the prominent violence-prevention program CeaseFire was criticized Wednesday in a report by the Illinois auditor's office for not effectively keeping track of millions...

A Wrigleyville man has been charged with murder in the strangulation and stabbing death of an Arlington Heights woman Sunday morning. Patrick Ford, 25, was charged with first-degree murder in...

The last time Mayor Richard Daley chose a police superintendent, the city was battling violent crime totals that for several years made Chicago the murder capital of the country. But...

The list of Chicago police misconduct allegations that city officials are fighting to keep secret shows that the scandal-plagued Special Operations Section has a disproportionately high number of complaints over...

They cut up the children's playground like it was their own private shooting range. The YLO Cobras stood on the territory they claim on the west side of North Central...

Police sketches of suspects who stole a pricey etching from a Michigan Avenue gallery aren't exactly Rembrandts, but authorities are hoping they may help lead them to one. Authorities have...