Eric Ferkenhoff

Under police questioning several hours after an Amtrak train plowed into his trailer, truck driver John R. Stokes lamented, "It had to be the fast one," an official involved in...

With a calming smile meant to reassure an entire community, David Lemak walked past three small caskets to the pulpit of a church Thursday and in a steady voice that...

A 40-year-old Rolling Meadows woman was killed Wednesday morning in a crash on the Northwest Tollway. Christina Moore of the 4600 block of Kenilworth Drive was pronounced dead at Lutheran...

Three New Jersey men were being held overnight Tuesday in the Prospect Heights lockup after police discovered nearly $50,000 in stolen clothing that was allegedly being prepared for shipment to...

As police zeroed in Friday on possible suspects in what they believe was the gang-related shooting of an Elgin teen, officials at the private school where he was slain said...

A masked gunman walked into a one-room alternative school Thursday afternoon in Elgin and opened fire on a 14-year-old boy, killing him before running out to a waiting getaway car,...

Bond of $75,000 was set Wednesday in the Rolling Meadows branch of Cook County Circuit Court for a 35-year-old homeless woman facing felony theft charges after Arlington Heights police said...

A Cook County judge has thrown out a lawsuit filed by parents of two victims of the 1993 Brown's Chicken & Pasta slayings, dismissing their arguments that the fast-food chain...

Schaumburg police on Thursday recovered the car of a woman who reported being kidnapped earlier in the week and locked in her trunk for nearly 20 hours before her two...

Schaumburg police late Wednesday said they were seeking two men in connection with a reported kidnapping that ended with the offenders beating a woman and leaving her at O'Hare International...