Brendan Mccarthy

Undaunted by arson fires earlier this year, church officials in Palatine are planning a festival this fall to help raise money to pay for renovations. Fires in March caused an...

With their jobs, homes and old lives mostly washed away by Hurricane Katrina, a steady stream of evacuees is making Chicago their place of refuge. Some are here temporarily, simply...

About 100 weary survivors of catastrophic flooding in New Orleans--some barefoot, others wearing ragged clothing or leaning on friends for support--arrived at O'Hare Thursday on a United Airlines rescue flight...

Twice a week, Kathleen Kielbasa drives her 1997 Jeep Cherokee from Algonquin to Des Plaines to visit her elderly mother, helping her with shopping and other chores. Now, as gas...

A Chicago woman was denied bail Sunday on charges that she allegedly beating a 3-year-old boy so savagely that his heart tore. Clara Taylor, 32, of the 6500 block of...

A Berwyn teenager was charged Monday night with killing his father's girlfriend inside his home, police said. Ryan D. Gaston, 18, of the 1800 block of South Harlem Avenue faces...

Without fanfare, Gov. Rod Blagojevich on Tuesday signed a bill arising from a nasty family feud he had this spring with his father-in-law, Ald. Richard Mell (33rd), over a controversial...

Two men who robbed a pair of banks on Chicago's North Side and made off with an estimated $30,000 did it in style. In one robbery, they dressed up as...

Tombol Malik was a 23-year-old who read Charles Dickens and loved to dance. The youngest of four children in an international family, Malik had a bright future and was planning...

Devin Kenny, a senior at Walter Payton College Prep, will be heading to college this fall with a smaller tuition bill. Last week, he was awarded the first Walter Payton...