Art Barnum

DuPage County State's Atty. Joseph Birkett said Thursday that he will seek a fourth term as the county's leading prosecutor. Birkett, 52, a Wheaton Republican, said a recent controversy in...

The City of Chicago says it could start demolishing homes it owns in Bensenville as early as next Friday for its O'Hare expansion project, but Bensenville officials vow to do...

DUPAGE COUNTY Resignation creates 4th judicial vacancy DuPage Circuit Judge Kenneth Moy's resignation this week means that the county will have four new judges chosen from the ranks of local...

The investigation into a crash that took the life of the prosecutor in some of DuPage County's highest-profile cases, including a DUI crash in Aurora that claimed four young lives...

A Fenton High School student, plotting a "Columbine-style" shooting at the school using his grandfather's weapons, was overheard warning peers and now stands charged with solicitation of murder and intimidation....

As the last part of the marquee on the historic DuPage Theatre came crashing to the ground Thursday afternoon, so did a saga that tore apart neighbors, politicians and preservationists...

A Westmont business owner was found slain early Thursday on his horse farm in unincorporated Peotone Township, police said. Officers found the body of Joseph N. Salamie, 58, at the...

A DuPage County judge opened the door Wednesday to allow evidence of Brian Dugan's past sex crimes to be used at his trial in the murder of 10-year-old Jeanine Nicarico....

An attorney for a 2004 Hinsdale Central High School graduate who was repeatedly sexually assaulted by the former head basketball coach is suing the coach, the principal, the school district...

A second person was in custody Friday in connection with the murder of a 32-year-old Villa Park woman whose body was found in the trunk of a 1966 Ford Mustang...