David Mendell

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), already critical of the Bush administration's plans for a potential invasion of Iraq, announced Sunday that he would oppose the president's request for congressional approval...

Illinois Atty. Gen. Jim Ryan on Tuesday sued Gov. George Ryan and the state Prisoner Review Board to halt an unprecedented series of clemency hearings next month for 157 inmates...

The controversial issue of abortion took center stage in the Illinois attorney general's race Sunday as Democrat Lisa Madigan accused Republican Joe Birkett of "exploiting breast cancer for political purposes"...

A woman injured in a South Side traffic accident that triggered last week's fatal mob beatings died Monday as attorneys for one of the men charged in the attack promised...

The Marine Corps on Tuesday announced the conclusion of a two-year investigation into drug use and distribution at Camp Lejeune, N.C., that resulted in the arrests of 84 Marines and...

Mirroring a national rise in reports of crime, Illinois last year saw an increase in murders for the first time since 1994, and violent crime crept up across Chicago's suburbs,...

The U.S. Supreme Court ruling that bans the execution of the mentally retarded could spare the lives of at least 10 Illinois Death Row inmates, according to reviews of the...

Internal affairs officials have recommended two Chicago police officers and their sergeant be suspended from duty for the officers' apparent failure to respond in a timely manner to Ronyale White's...

The city has issued a demolition permit for the former home of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, a 1927 building preservationists call a masonry-and-mortar monument to Chicago's role in creating modern...