Eric Ferkenhoff

A 17-year-old motorcyclist from Park Ridge died late Wednesday after an accident on Chicago's far Northwest Side. Piotr Piatek of the 1300 block of South Cumberland Avenue was pronounced dead...

A military man who had flown bombers over the Pacific in World II, Emil Mennes at 78 years old was a private man who kept his miseries to himself. He...

Palatine police, joined by a task force of investigators from area departments, continued today to investigate the slaying of Emil Mennes, the elderly and partially paralyzed father of one of...

Authorities have issued at least two more arrest warrants in connection with the slayings earlier this week of three men inside a low-income apartment building in Elgin. Late Thursday, police...

In early August 1995, Joan Bierdz, a mother of five, walked into the Elgin Police Department with bruises on her arms and legs to complain that her husband had beaten her and...

In early August 1995, Joan Bierdz, a mother of five, walked into the Elgin Police Department with bruises on her arms and legs to complain that her husband had beaten...

An experienced McHenry County pilot and three friends enjoyed ice cream at Lake Lawn Resort near Delavan, Wis., before their summer evening ended tragically on the flight home. Federal investigators...

Four people were killed and three critically injured in two separate small plane crashes Thursday north of Chicago. The four deaths occurred when a single-engine Piper Arrow plane struck high-tension...

Elgin police late Wednesday said they were questioning a local woman in the stabbing death of a 30-year-old man whose body was found earlier in the day. Police said they...

A 38-year-old Palatine-area man was free on $25,000 bond Thursday pending a July 20 preliminary hearing on charges he was a middleman in a scheme to steal and resell medical...