David Heinzmann

As he formally announced his retirement, Joliet Bishop Joseph Imesch said Tuesday that the Catholic Church's priest sex-abuse scandal had nothing to do with the decision. That may be true--this...

As her South Shore neighbors mourned Friday for a 74-year-old woman who was found slain in her home, the community was on edge, fearing she may be the second victim...

A 22-year-old Chicago man who relatives said served two tours in Iraq with the Marines was in critical condition Tuesday after he was struck by a bullet while sitting in...

Federal judges in Chicago are looking into conducting background checks on potential jurors, the chief judge said Tuesday, even as questions swirled around another juror in former Gov. George Ryan's...

Evelyn Ezell said Monday's outcome of former Gov. George Ryan's trial would have been different if she had not been kicked off the jury for making false statements on her...

With the recent slayings of two young girls in Englewood renewing attention on the South Side neighborhood, Mayor Richard Daley announced Wednesday a plan to send community policing specialists door...

Investigators have believed for months that a fugitive wanted for the slaying of a University of Illinois at Chicago student is hiding in Syria, and a video found recently on...

During a deposition in August, Joliet Bishop Joseph Imesch said a priest skinny-dipping and playing poker in the nude with young boys was "inappropriate," but because Imesch did not consider...

Cardinal Francis George Thursday defended the decision that allowed a West Side pastor to stay in his parish for months after an accusation of child sexual abuse, even as critics...

He enters your house unbidden, steals your food, dirties your floors, startles your guests, and then disappears as quickly as he came. A ghost? No, ghosts, to their credit, do...