David Heinzmann

Four people died Saturday morning in a fast-moving apartment fire in Wrigleyville that police are investigating as a possible arson and that may be connected to several other small fires...

After police and firefighters stopped his attempted suicide, Daryoush Ebrahimi allegedly admitted killing his wife, sister-in-law and mother-in-law because they "disrespected him and said he was not a man," a...

Given the history of snowstorms and the ballot box in this town, no mayor worth his salt would try to plow us out of a blizzard on the cheap in...

A few days ago, Lester Childs told his 15-year-old son Dijohn he was running with the wrong crowd. And as he sat in front of the TV that night, Childs...

Andre P. Johnson cut a dapper figure as he tooled around the South Side with Ald. Arenda Troutman. An elder in his Baptist church, the slender 38-year-old ran a bevy...

At first, employee Diego Lona-Lopez said, it was the usual scene at the Ice Bar early Saturday morning: Drinks flowed and hip-hop music played as more than 100 people packed...

On the day in 1987 when Cook County prosecutors finally ran out of options in trying to salvage the quadruple murder conviction of James Ealy, the judge who presided over...

Police shooting investigations almost always are quickly closed and not reopened, but the death of Emmanuel Lopez stands as a bracing anomaly. More than two years after authorities swiftly justified...

An Iraqi woman, found not guilty by reason of insanity in the death of her disabled daughter, was released from a mental health facility Wednesday, in time to spend Thanksgiving...

A member of the Gangster Disciples and a North Side mortgage broker ran a mortgage fraud scheme for at least two years that ripped off "unsophisticated" home buyers for hundreds...