Eric Ferkenhoff

With the nation's top law enforcement official at center stage, this college town unified Monday evening to spread a message of tolerance eight days after a student was slain in...

A 9-year-old Campton Township girl died a day after she was struck by a car on Burlington Road while riding on the back of a minibike near her home. Kane...

An avowed white supremacist whose tattooed chest is emblazoned with the words "Sabbath Breaker" was charged with murder Sunday in an arrest warrant as authorities continued to investigate a possible...

Traffic was briefly jammed along the southbound Tri-State Tollway early Wednesday after a semitrailer truck struck and killed a homeless man who police said was "running loose" between cars and...

A 54-year-old Cary woman was listed in critical condition late Wednesday following a two-car crash in Barrington Hills. The woman was flown by helicopter from the accident scene at Illinois...

Three Wheeling men were charged with criminal trespass and criminal damage to property in a fire early Monday that destroyed a Park District log cabin dating to the turn of...

Later this month when Skokie Police Chief William D. Miller takes over as Elgin's new chief, city leaders want him to attack gang violence, stem the flow of drugs in...

A 16-year-old Schaumburg High School student was suspended and charged with disorderly conduct Thursday after police allegedly discovered that the boy made threatening statements against the school during an on-line...

A 23-year-old Missouri man was being held overnight Thursday in the Mt. Prospect jail, charged with one count of aggravated kidnapping for allegedly abducting an ex-girlfriend at knifepoint as she...

Not wanting to part with his ailing wife, a former official with the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago fatally shot his wife in their Skokie home before turning the gun...