Emma Graves Fitzsimmons

Cheryl Jacobs had planned to campaign for U.S. Sen. Barack Obama in Iowa this weekend, but she quickly abandoned the presidential race for the pennant race and a last-minute road...

Mayor Richard Daley, known for taking early morning rides along the lakefront, just loves bicycles, and he delights in getting ideas from other cities. So is it any wonder that...

The gunman knocked first, a dust mask and what appeared to be hospital scrubs or worker's clothes as his disguise. But within seconds after the masked man got through the...

Jimmy Rogers was in the back of an unmarked squad car, his sister on the sidewalk on a sticky summer afternoon yelling to anyone who would listen. "He didn't do...

Anger and unrest have not subsided in the Lawndale neighborhood two days after an 18-year-old was fatally shot in the back as he ran from a police officer. An emotional...

Three Chicago men were killed in separate shootings over the weekend. A 19-year-old man was fatally shot in the head early Sunday a block from his home on the Far...

Chicago Police Officer Wayne Smith Jr., killed in a crash over the weekend while riding his motorcycle to pick up a birthday gift for his daughter, never said no when...

Prosecutors said a Woodridge mother systematically beat her 5-year-old daughter until she could "no longer absorb the blows." The girl died shortly after being admitted to an area hospital July...

As the city began to receive reports of people getting sick after attending the Taste of Chicago, the visitors had one thing in common: They all had eaten at the...

The denizens of Wrigleyville, accustomed to bars and baseball, are choosy when it comes to rock shows, unwilling to let a band with overly raucous followers invade their friendly confines....