Eric Ferkenhoff

For the fifth consecutive year, reports of major crime in Illinois declined in 1999, with communities in Chicago's northwest suburbs reporting drops of more than 12 percent. The downturn comes...

A childhood friend of slain Hampshire Police Sgt. Greg Sears stood quietly in court Saturday morning as a Kane County judge ordered him held on $5 million bond, one day...

A 9-year-old Carpentersville boy was hospitalized late Wednesday in critical condition after being struck by a sports utility vehicle near his home, according to reports. Fire officials said the boy,...

As many as 10 suburban branches of Harris Bank were evacuated and temporarily shut down late Tuesday afternoon after a vague bomb threat was called into a Barrington branch. No...

A 42-year-old Des Plaines man was being held Tuesday on weapons and assault charges following a weekend standoff with police at his mobile home. Daniel Nash, of the 800 block...

Scooping belongings from ruined homes, survivors of a South Side blaze talked Sunday of heroism and blame as authorities suggested faulty wiring may have sparked the fire the night before....

Six members of a suspected Colombian jewel-theft ring were being questioned Friday as suspects in the death last week of a Wheeling jewelry dealer who was shot in front of...

Wheeling police late Wednesday were investigating the shooting death of a man found outside his home in an upscale neighborhood on the village's southwest side. Investigators said the man, whose...

Police are investigating the death of a 31-year-old Crystal Lake man who was found with a stab wound Tuesday morning in a home in Barrington. Police, who were called to...

A 27-year-old Streamwood man was jailed on $100,000 bond Monday evening after he allegedly fired a semiautomatic rifle into a car, injuring a Glendale Heights man, a short time after...