Brian Cox

Police on Wednesday were investigating an accident in which a Chicago man was crushed to death by the forklift he was driving. Police said Ernesto Rodriquez, 24, of 2420 W....

The Evanston City Council voted unanimously Monday night to give the city's two school districts an extra barricade against the flow of border-crashing students by altering city regulations on residential...

Evanston voters broke with tradition Tuesday, sending a Democrat to the mayor's office for the first time. Though continuing efforts to foster racial harmony was only one of many issues...

Eyes open wide with excitement, Tom Lupfer describes the time he spent in Washington last summer, working as an intern for U.S. Rep. Sidney Yates (D-Ill.). "It was wild," says...

Rejecting a protest candidate's call for a fundamental change in government, voters in Evanston's first mayoral primary Tuesday apparently selected an alderman and a former City Council member to face...

Rejecting a protest candidate's call for a fundamental change in government, Evanston voters Tuesday selected an alderman to advance to the April mayoral election against one of two other candidates,...

The Evanston City Council has approved a 4.5 percent pay increase for police patrol officers as part of a one-year contract that staves off the threat of a walkout by...

Baird & Warner Inc. is expected to settle for $450,000 a federal housing discrimination filed by Evanston, which accused the real estate company of racial steering. ''We`re not going to...

After several hours of sometimes volatile debate, the Evanston City Council agreed early Tuesday to consider relaxing its strict liquor law, possibly opening the floodgates for the sale of packaged...

In a new controversy over electromagnetic fields on the North Shore, community opposition to a substation planned for an Evanston neighborhood has prompted Commonwealth Edison officials to try to find...