Evan Osnos

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...

(The following incorporates material from earlier editions of Daywatch.) One of the most famous alumni of the Chicago Bears, Dick Butkus (shown here in 1972), will coach the city's new...

Last Friday, Chicago native Renee DiCicco introduced a new friend in her life to co-workers at Southern Illinois University's Touch of Nature outdoors center. DiCicco, a 1999 SIU graduate, had...

Concerned about lagging response to the census in Chicago, federal census officials in Washington are dispatching a SWAT team of seven problem solvers to the city in coming days to...

Armed with official badges and a stomach for rejection, thousands of census takers hit Chicago streets Thursday to pry information from the close to half of all city households that...

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....

The Marine Corps on Sunday launched an investigation into the crash of a military aircraft attempting to land during a nighttime training mission, killing all 19 aboard and raising questions...

At the Vienna Correctional Center here, deep in southern Illinois, clipboard-wielding guards count the inmates six times a day. But no count matters more to the prison and the rest...

Doctors for Mayor Richard M. Daley on Sunday attempted to rule out life-threatening causes for chest pains that hospitalized him over the weekend, marking the mayor's first thorough medical evaluation...

The U.S. Census Bureau's decennial effort to count every American -- a campaign many government leaders consider essential -- is running desperately short of census takers. Despite what many would...