Crystal Yednak

As engineers and architects surveyed the Mallers Building for signs of damage Wednesday, most of the jewelers and other tenants waited outside for word on when they could get back...

A propane tank explosion in a jewelry business Monday injured six people and blew out walls and windows in a Loop high-rise, showering glass on the street below and snarling...

A Catholic priest who as chancellor helped handle sex-abuse cases within the Archdiocese of Chicago has himself been accused of "inappropriate sexual misconduct" with a teenager more than 25 years...

Hundreds paid their respects Wednesday to fallen Chicago Police Officer Donald Marquez, remembering him as the son who called his parents every day just to check in, the friend who...

After trying for 10 minutes to cajole the owner of a dilapidated Northwest Side apartment building to open his door and face arrest, Chicago Police Officer Donald Marquez finally swung...

The contractor operating the scaffold that came apart in high winds triggering Saturday's deadly accident failed to heed the manufacturer's specifications that the heavy rig should be lashed to either...

City and federal safety officials Monday remained uncertain about the cause of Saturday's fatal scaffold accident at the John Hancock Center, as municipal agencies puzzled over who if anyone was...

As thousands of Far Southwest Side residents endured a second wintry day without heat, City Hall blamed Peoples Energy Co. for the utility's worst outage in 25 years--even though it...

Decades after his death, Martin Luther King Jr.'s message moved generations of Chicago-area residents Monday--some who witnessed his acts, others who read about them in history books. "One of my...

Elizabeth Darling Elizabeth Darling had just started taking photography classes so she could take better pictures of her 2-year-old son, Mikey. "He was the focus of her life," said her...