David Elsner

Amid a loud and often critical reaction to his proposal for a third airport, Mayor Richard Daley on Thursday tried to appease disgruntled Southeast Side residents concerned about their property...

A Kankakee County Board member charged with the arson deaths of four children-three of them his own-had two weeks earlier accused the victims` uncle of bringing ''a drug atmosphere'' into...

Metra lashed back Friday at the south suburban police chief who accused the commuter rail agency of failing to come quickly enough to the aid of a woman assaulted at...

Sentencing has been set for Sept. 22 for a former Crown Point, Ind., school administrator convicted of molesting two junior high school girls. David Mark Callison, 38, was convicted Wednesday...

A single-engine plane crashed into a south suburban factory shortly after takeoff from Lewis University Airport Friday, killing its three occupants and injuring two workers in the building. The fiery...

A decision on a site for a proposed third airport in the Chicago area will be delayed by at least a year, officials said Monday. A regional airport planning committee,...

The man who Calumet City police say pulled the trigger in the October ''thrill kill'' of a gasoline station manager was free at the time on a $2,500 cash bond...

The south suburbs won a battle Wednesday with a formal acknowledgment from area planning officials that a third airport might be built and that the area`s 20-year transportation plan might...

It was the kind of day when you would call to tell your boss you`d be late for work because of the blizzard, and he`d say, ''What blizzard?'' The culprit...

The continuing bitter cold is threatening serious problems for the homeless in Chicago`s suburbs, where there already are too few shelters and people are being turned away in increasing numbers....