Diana Strzalka

A Cook County judge Wednesday knocked over two hurdles to Rev. Donald C. Luster becoming mayor of Dixmoor but left in place an injunction preventing him from being sworn in,...

The man bouncers heaved out the door of JB's Pub in Elgin was angry and drunk. The man who returned more than an hour later was still angry, but now...

For the last two weeks, Kenneth Wentink has scheduled his business calls around the noisy jackhammers pounding away at the streets, sidewalks and walls of Wacker Drive, just outside his...

Aurora Quijano could work out at the Mann Park field house on the Southeast Side where she takes her son four days a week to use the pool, but she...

Two Marshall Field's window dressers stole more than $2 million in high-end merchandise in the past year, then used Field's own shipping service to neatly package and deliver the goods...

Rain pummeling the city and surrounding areas amid springlike temperatures Friday made way for the more familiar snowy, icy and brisk winter weather expected in the Chicago area. Storms throughout...

Miyuki Cannon usually drove her car to Pontiac to visit her brother in prison. But Friday she decided to take a ride in the Salvation Army's van. And at the...

Using the rocky edges of Promontory Point as a runway, Tom Knight has windsurfed atop the waves of Lake Michigan into a cove tucked inside the curvy shoreline east of...

A 39-year-old unemployed handyman has been charged with murder in the November beating death of a businessman known in the neighborhood as "the Mayor of Milwaukee Avenue," police said Saturday....

As midnight struck in country after country around the world, a year once considered the far future became a reality amid joyous celebrations that lacked the fanfare of last year's...