Colin McMahon

The inside of a cell must look pretty good to Willie Lloyd right now. For the second time this year, the West Side gang leader was targeted for a daytime...

A 23-year-old South Side man Saturday became the city's 95th homicide victim in July, making last month the bloodiest July on record and moving it into a tie for the...

Tuesday was a rough day to be a police officer on the Near West Side of Chicago. It was also a confusing one. One officer was pelted by rocks and...

If any child was most likely to be killed, it was Lavercheray Johnson. Lavercheray was born into some of the worst conditions the United States offers. The infant was a...

While most of Chicago was celebrating the Bulls' third NBA title Sunday night, some fans' joy was being transformed into recklessness-and a woman, a teenager and 12-year-old boy were fatally...

For the second time in four months, Police Supt. Matt Rodriguez shook up his command staff, making several high-level appointments Friday and filling two vacancies left by retirements. And at...

The bad blood, police investigators believe, began around New Year's Eve. A month later, at a North Side roller rink, the feud boiled over. And once blood was spilled, the...

The dual nature of 14-year-old Yasmine Gomez's life was never more evident than Wednesday night at a dark, crowded funeral home in Logan Square. Inside, family and longtime friends gathered...

Anthony Garrett's signature is there, plain as day, at the bottom of all 5 1/2 handwritten pages of a statement tying him to the murder of 7-year-old Dantrell Davis. Case...

Former Chicago Police Supt. LeRoy Martin and seven officers were sued in federal court Wednesday on behalf of a 15-year-old youth who alleges that he was tortured while in police...