Emma Graves Fitzsimmons

Over four hours, about a half-year's worth of lightning bolts bombarded the Chicago area, electrifying the night sky as trees were split, transformers were zapped and houses were set ablaze....

Exxon Mobil Corp. reported the richest corporate operating profit in history, prompting a critical outburst from presidential candidate Barack Obama and fueling simmering public fury about high-priced gasoline. Despite the...

For Sue Rolsky of Schaumburg, evidence of the tough economic times comes in a jumble of ugly vases, a 1986 Jim Thompson campaign button and other oddities put out this...

If Lynwood's economy is surviving by the seat of its pants, the town at least wants its bottoms properly covered. The leaders of the small south suburb, with their eyes...

Whenever Ricardo Gonzalez went to a job site in his pickup truck, he never let his small children out of his sight. So protective was the 35-year-old south suburban man,...

Stable owner Judy Rechsteiner bought hay in bulk once a year from the same farmer for two decades. But when the farmer didn't have any this year because he couldn't...

The jury weighing R. Kelly's guilt or innocence voted once an hour over parts of two days, and the outcome changed each time they took a straw poll. At first...

Tinley Park police released a lifelike computer image Tuesday of the gunman wanted in the Lane Bryant slayings. The three-dimensional computer composite shows the gunman's face, the style of cornrows...

A whole suburban school district closed Thursday, the latest in a spate of violence threats and strong reactions. Administrators at Dolton School District 149 shut down five elementary schools and...

After she broke up with her boyfriend last year, things got bad for Cindy L. Bischof. She was forced to file restraining orders against him and was so scared she...