Crystal Yednak

Cook County voters rejected at least a dozen school tax increases Tuesday, despite warnings of dire financial problems ahead. Amid the widespread fiscal caution, there was one notable exception: Voters...

Attorneys in the Brown's Chicken & Pasta slayings case are at odds over whether an allegedly incriminating statement by one of the two men charged with the infamous crime should...

Wisconsin investigators began meticulously combing through debris from the state's worst-ever car crash Saturday to determine the cause of the collision near Cedar Grove that killed 10 people and injured...

The FBI confirmed Friday that former Tribune columnist Bob Greene contacted the agency in June after receiving phone calls from a woman he admitted having sexual contact with more than...

By the time John and Sheri Scherer divorced last year after more than 13 years of marriage, their lives had moved in vastly different directions. She had moved up the...

After 23 hours and 31 minutes of swimming in Lake Michigan, an exhausted British man waded slowly ashore in Hammond, declaring the nearly 30-mile-long Chicago shoreline was a tougher swim...

A judge in the Brown's Chicken murder case Tuesday denied an unusual defense request for a gag order that not only would have prohibited those involved in the case from...

In the early 1990s, Anne Lockett, Eileen Bakalla and the crowd at Jake's Pizza in Hoffman Estates were struggling with teenage dramas--uneven romances, minor drug use, the fallout from broken...

One of Jim Degorski's most recent girlfriends knew him as a sweetheart who would never raise a hand to her, loved animals and nature and always was surrounded by friends....

For a second straight day, Chicago's high temperature broke a record Tuesday as an unusually early warm spell lingered across the Midwest. The mercury touched 87 degrees at 2:50 p.m.,...