When a motorist flings a door open in front of a cyclist passing in the bike lane, Chicago bikers call it a "dooring" and often just charge it to the...
Saying he was swayed by a family's plea for mercy, a federal judge sentenced a mob figure to 8 1/2 years in prison Tuesday for passing information to his imprisoned...
There had been several fights at Crane Tech High School the day Ruben Ivy was killed, allegedly by another student. And though there's no indication Ivy, 18, was part of...
Each morning and afternoon, a dozen or so Chicago police officers and school officials watch over the crowds of students at Crane Tech High School, hoping their presence might keep...
Dana Arreola thought she had protected herself in the fall by getting a flu shot, but this year's severe flu season has taught her -- and perhaps millions of others...
While local drivers celebrated a brief respite from snow on Thursday, they still were forced to swerve and dodge around another familiar roadway hazard: the tire-popping, axle-bending, occasionally car-swallowing pothole....
In the center of Logan Square, artists eat tofu scrambles, joggers wear iPod nanos and pet walkers escort small dogs past million-dollar homes. About a mile west in the same...
In death -- as in her life -- Benazir Bhutto elicited reverence and revulsion from local Pakistanis as they reacted Thursday to news of her assassination. For M. Murtaza Arain,...
After losing his mother, grandmother and two uncles, the holidays had become hard for Gerald Richardson, his family said. He became depressed, and his aunt, Lillian Richardson, said his behavioral...
Shortly before an Amtrak train carrying almost 200 people rear-ended a stopped freight train in Chicago on Friday, a dispatcher ordered the passenger liner to slow down, prepare to switch...