Eric Ferkenhoff

Cook County Forest Preserve District officials said Thursday that they have temporarily stopped paying jailed recreation supervisor Robert M. Kelly, though they have not decided whether to allow him to...

A top Cook County Forest Preserve District official awaiting sentencing on felony drunken-driving charges asked Tuesday to be granted a leave of absence to avoid being fired from his perk-filled...

A 29-year-old Des Plaines man narrowly escaped serious injury Monday when his 1993 Ford Econoline work van struck the side of a crowded Metra commuter train in downtown Arlington Heights,...

A portrait of the city in white is a scene of great quietude. Of old Budweiser bottles and yellowed newspapers erased by a gleaming blanket of snow in the gutters...

The Cook County Metropolitan Enforcement Group, an alliance of state, county and local police officers that for years was smaller suburbs' only weapon to battle drug dealers, announced Wednesday that...

State Rep. Robert L. Bergman (R-Palatine) was listed in critical but stable condition Tuesday night in Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge after shooting himself in the chest in an...

The young couple was supposed to be his caretakers, providing for 68-year-old Adolfo Garcia as he slipped into old age and lost touch with his own children. But however the...

Park Ridge police arrested a Chicago couple Thursday following a rapid-fire spree of home invasions and burglaries earlier in the day. By Thursday night, police had charged one of the...

Missouri authorities said Friday that they know the whereabouts of a Wheeling teen suspected in the slayings of a Prospect Heights woman and her young son. But investigators in Franklin...

A 30-year-old motorcyclist was killed Wednesday after losing control of his bike on the Northwest Tollway in Elgin. Police said William Buckley of Streamwood was riding eastbound on the tollway...