Darlene Gavron Stevens

Will County prosecutors misled sheriff's deputies into thinking they were acting under a judge's orders when they seized 7-month-old Joshua Morrell from his Steger home, according to documents obtained Monday...

Despite a Will County court order Friday that their nursing infant be immediately returned, a Steger couple waited anxiously Saturday in a motel outside a South Carolina military air station...

In a practice that is enterprising and illegal, Illinois residents are crossing the Wisconsin border to register their vehicles more cheaply and avoid mandatory insurance laws. But the illicit traffic...

Reporters and television camera crews have spent so much time breathlessly broadcasting live from the White House lawn during the Clinton calamity that they wore out the grass and turned...

A brief but brutal thunderstorm whipped through the Chicago metropolitan area Monday afternoon, leaving 224,000 ComEd customers-- 121,000 of them in the south suburbs--without power and damaging businesses, schools and...

Amid the constitutional questions being raised in the wake of President Clinton's revelations about Monica Lewinsky, another equally vivid discussion is going on across the country about the "domestic" side...

On the eve of his deli's reopening, Mitch Iwan said Wednesday that he has seen the light about the importance of monthly staff seminars about hand-washing and other mainstays of...

The Taste of Chicago, the city's largest outdoor festival, returns to Grant Park on Thursday with a longer schedule (11 days instead of the typical 10), a few new features...

As health inspectors Thursday combed for more clues at an Orland Park catering business linked to 2,300 reported food-poisoning cases, the number of plaintiffs against the vendor continued to mount...

Amid a national rash of school shootings, officials on Wednesday charged a 12-year-old Homewood boy with solicitation to commit murder and solicitation to commit kidnapping after he allegedly wrote a...