Eric Ferkenhoff

The cyclist police were seeking Thursday in connection with the killing of an Elgin-area man at Union Station might have attacked the man during an altercation the day before the...

A 27-year-old Streamwood man was charged Monday with abandoning three pit bulls, which were found last week tied with heavy chains to trees in the Poplar Creek Forest Preserve. Alex...

An attorney for a Hanover Park family is expected to ask a federal judge Tuesday to order the Hanover Park Police Department to secure 911 tapes from an incident last...

Paul W. Jung, the popular first-term mayor of Des Plaines, was in critical condition late Friday after falling down stairs in his home after apparently suffering an aneurysm. Jung, the...

Schaumburg police were awaiting the release of a 25-year-old man from an area hospital before deciding whether to pursue charges that he accidentally exploded a pipe bomb in his bedroom,...

Robert Komosa doesn't play football for applause or glory, and he certainly doesn't do it to pile up gaudy statistics. In this, the most glittering Rolling Meadows football season in...

Brian Knuerr, a hockey player at Fremd High School who last year won his team's top sportsmanship award, was being mourned Thursday by family and friends after the 16-year-old junior...

The Schaumburg Police Department on Friday will officially fill four top departmental spots that were opened with the promotion last month of Richard Casler to chief. Capt. Brian Howerton, who...

Only minutes before he was to be bonded out of the Arlington Heights jail, a 27-year-old local man allegedly set fire to clothing and toilet paper in his cell and...

A natural gas leak Tuesday afternoon forced the evacuation of Wheeling High School and shut down area streets as contractors and Nicor crews worked into the evening to fix the...