Eric Ferkenhoff

Ginny Toepfer, like Michael Jordan, knows a thing or two about getting the job done when your system is doing a first-class dipsy-doodle. A saleswoman for a nationwide shipping company,...

Ten days into their search for a young Elgin girl who vanished from her family's home, investigators announced Sunday that a body fitting the 11-year-old's description had been discovered late...

The discovery Friday night in New Jersey of a new slaying victim and the abandoned Lexus belonging to slain real estate magnate Lee Miglin intensified the East Coast search for...

For the rich, the fact that their fortunes are public knowledge has always made security a concern. Yet popular notions that the very wealthy lead lives shielded by bodyguards, alarm...

At a time of year when many students are agonizing over which college to attend, a tug of war often emerges over issues that high school counselors dub "the family...

Lee Miglin, a smalltown coal miner's son who grew up to become a giant in Chicago real estate, was found slain in the garage of his tony Gold Coast home...

People who know Hope Shiluk, and there don't appear to be too many, say the 53-year-old woman who lived in the brick two-flat at 6747 S. Rockwell St. always had...

Paul & Joe's does not look much different from hundreds of other corner taverns in Chicago. Tucked beneath the Western Avenue overpass just north of Belmont Avenue, the long, narrow...

After an exhaustive three-month investigation and more than 400 interviews, authorities charged a 25-year-old man Thursday in the January assault on the Cabrini-Green resident known as Girl X. Patrick Sykes,...

A subject more usually associated with groans or yawns--an item on a school lunch menu-- became a national health issue Wednesday as school and health officials across the country scrambled...