Emma Graves Fitzsimmons

Chicago police officers shot a man to death after he pulled a gun on them during a struggle Wednesday night outside a liquor store on the Far North Side, authorities...

Alex Enriquez, an office manager from Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood, said he isn't the type who usually takes part in political rallies. But the war in Iraq has upset him...

Three people died of gunshot wounds over the weekend and a man was stabbed to death early Saturday, officials said. Chicago police are investigating the four deaths as homicides. They...

Two days after they were beaten in a city park as they tried to help a girl who was under attack, Edward White and his wife, Angelique Denwiddie, are determined...

Given the history of snowstorms and the ballot box in this town, no mayor worth his salt would try to plow us out of a blizzard on the cheap in...

A Chicago police officer was credited Wednesday with leading a South Side family to safety overnight from their burning house. Officer Michael O'Connor said he was driving to work shortly...

As the cold bore down on Chicago in recent days, Dovie Fort needed a better way to get around, so she bit the bullet. She rented a car. Saturday night...

The first person in Illinois charged with homicide involving the powerful painkiller fentanyl has been arrested again on a new drug charge, but this time a judge ordered him held...

Closing in on completing her collection of quarters featuring the 50 states, 4th-grader Maura McDonagh found a new reason to search her father's change Wednesday. "It's fun to know what...

A cable repairman was charged Thursday with the sexual assault and murder of a woman who had let him into her home to repair her Internet service, police said. The...