Dan P. Blake

The economy is so bad, you can't even get as much money for turning in your handgun to Chicago police. People who turn in handguns Saturday during the city's annual...

Chicago Public Schools' inspector general is investigating whether rules were violated when Ald. Ricardo Munoz (22nd) intervened to help a relative whose test scores weren't high enough to get into...

A Bartlett man has been charged with two misdemeanors after a daylong search for the Cubs fan who threw beer on a Philadelphia Phillies outfielder during Wednesday night's game. Johnny...

A younger police force and millions of dollars in savings were the benefits touted Thursday as Mayor Richard Daley announced an agreement to lower the age that police officers can...

Cook County Board members Tuesday voted to sue the owners of the troubled Burr Oak Cemetery to try to recoup costs incurred by a sheriff's police investigation into an alleged...

State government's annual stage play is running once again: Politicians unable to agree on a budget are squeezing social-service providers, who in turn are shouting at rallies that orphans, the...

Still smarting from their lightning-fast approval of a deal to lease Chicago's parking meters -- and the resulting public outcry when meters failed as rates soared -- aldermen on Monday...

Video poker has long been a wink-and-a-nod business for bars, restaurants and social clubs across the state, but now Illinois lawmakers want to legalize gambling on the machines and tap...

Chicago drivers will get a car sticker that combines their residential permit parking sticker with their regular city sticker in what officials hope will clear windshields, speed up the application...

Police on Friday were seeking information on a gunman who fired into a van in which several people were riding on the Southwest Side, critically injuring a 16-year-old girl. The...