Eric Ferkenhoff

Chicago school officials on Wednesday suspended an 11-year-old boy for five days and are investigating his special education teacher following accusations that he sexually assaulted a 12-year-old girl in a...

Seven veteran Northwest Side police officers were stripped of their police powers Thursday and ordered to surrender their badges in a widening probe into alleged shakedowns of Polish immigrants during...

In the seven years since the bodies of seven workers were found at Brown's Chicken & Pasta in Palatine, the investigation has drawn scorn and praise, built reputations and ruined...

At least three Northwest Side police officers are being investigated by department officials and the FBI for allegedly shaking down Polish immigrants during traffic stops, sources said Friday. Chicago police...

Mayor Richard Daley's revamped anti-gang loitering ordinance finally is being enforced on Chicago's streets--but not without the same controversy that has dogged the measure since the City Council passed it...

An autopsy Friday failed to find the exact cause of death for a 34-year-old West Side man who died after being taken into custody by Chicago police for allegedly trying...

In the hours before Chicago Police Officer Brenda Sexton was beaten to death, signs of the troubled relationship with her live-in boyfriend had become clear to her close friend Gena...

Mark Anthony Lewis, the suspect in a series of attacks on Chicago-area Asian women, was identified Wednesday by eight of nine alleged victims and has been charged in at least...

Police on Thursday were calling justified the early morning fatal shooting of a 17-year-old youth, who they said fired several rounds from a Tech-9 semiautomatic weapon at a Chicago officer...

Lengthy skid marks have police looking into whether speeding played a role in a weekend accident that killed two Wisconsin residents and injured three others outside a popular East Dundee...