Bonnie Miller Rubin

American Idol fans will be cheering on Angela Martin on Tuesday, when the Chicagoan vies to advance to the next round -- and focuses national attention on Rett syndrome. During...

The killer of five women at a Lane Bryant store in Tinley Park made sexual advances on at least one of the victims before the slayings and may have targeted...

The five women came to the suburban clothing store for such ordinary reasons. One, the mother of a disabled child, wanted to find something nice to wear for a rare...

A gunman led five women into the back room of a Tinley Park clothing store Saturday morning, killed them, then walked out the front door and disappeared. Police said there...

What to do with kids who are too dangerous or destructive to be kept at home? Not much, according to Michelle Hughes, a Chicago adoption attorney who handled a record...

Jill Manges was in her French history class at Eastern Illinois University, when she felt the symptoms -- the waves of nausea, the tightness in the throat -- that signaled...

Citing bulging health-care costs, soaring pension payments and an aging mass-transit system, officials at nearly every level of government have proposed raising taxes and fees. In Cook County, where board...

After one canceled flight and hours of waiting at O'Hare International Airport, traveling software consultant Andy Simmons stood inches from a gate agent, who studiously ignored him and the other...

Mike Boland was strolling across a supermarket parking lot when a smoke-filled car caught his eye. "It looked like there were clouds in there. I thought, 'Boy, you're ... probably...

One-fifth of infants and toddlers under age 3 have a television in their bedrooms, according to a new study that suggests saturation with media could affect brain development as more...