Ellen Jean Hirst

UPDATE: Yonetta White has been found and returned safely to her family, Chicago Police said at about 5 p.m. Friday. No other details were released. A 66-year-old woman who suffers...

One man was killed and three others were wounded in shootings that occurred within an hour of each other Thursday night on the South Side. A fight broke out between...

UPDATE: Yonetta White has been found and returned safely to her family, Chicago Police said at about 5 p.m. Friday. No other details were released. A 66-year-old woman who suffers...

A day after a 76-year-old former judicial secretary was killed by a Megabus while crossing the street, the discount carrier agreed to a multimillion-dollar settlement in a similar 2010 crash....

Everyone on the busy block of Canal Street in the West Loop seemed to know 76-year-old Donna Halstead, who always had a kind word or a bit of advice or...

A 17-year-old girl was reportedly sexually assaulted in the Avondale neighborhood on the Northwest Side, police said. The incident happened at about 5:30 p.m. Tuesday as the girl was walking...

Donna Halstead rubbed shoulders with some of the most powerful people in the state, worked for the first female Supreme Court chief justice in Illinois and joked around with homeless...