David Heinzmann

A prominent Chicago music club has been partially silenced by the city for at least the rest of the month after officials charged it failed to follow the provisions of...

The stories, photos and television coverage of the anti-war protests that filled Federal Plaza in the Loop and closed Lake Shore Drive in the last week and a half have...

The rapid, passionate response of well-organized protesters to the war in Iraq surprised police in Chicago and at least 54 other cities. But the rallies and marches were in the...

The safe return of Elizabeth Smart from a nine-month kidnapping ordeal in Utah has given the mother of two missing Chicago girls renewed hope her children may still be found...

For at least 15 minutes after a deadly stampede started at the E2 nightclub, hundreds of patrons continued to dance and buy drinks, oblivious to the mayhem that claimed 21...

Police investigating the chaotic stampede that killed 21 nightclub patrons are focusing on the behavior of security guards who allegedly sparked the rush to the door by using pepper spray,...

A Chicago police officer charged Thursday with shaking down drug dealers in the West Side neighborhood he patrolled also is being investigated for a shooting incident last month that law-enforcement...

Although the hunt for a man suspected in six murders ended Sunday morning in a South Side motel room, where the 18-year-old allegedly shot himself, police were searching for another...

A top federal prosecutor whose ideas about combating gun violence captured the attention of Mayor Richard Daley will become the mayor's liaison to the Chicago Police Department, with a mandate...

After months of rumors that he might be pardoned for the murder conviction that put him on Death Row, Stanley Howard finally started feeling optimistic when a fellow inmate said...