Evan Osnos

Following the explosion early Sunday morning of a home across the street, a Catholic school on Chicago's Southwest Side will be closed today and Tuesday. The pastor emeritus of St....

Rick Nowak was walking toward his car after mass Sunday morning at St. Jane de Chantal Church in Garfield Ridge when he heard the boom. A rush of hot air...

For a decade, Douglas Florey has been a driver's nightmare. He sped, he ran red lights and stop signs, and on two occasions he was arrested and charged with driving...

Freight driver Willie Hayden almost never took Interstate Highway 55. But on Tuesday night, a late delivery from Bolingbrook left him no time to take the back roads, and so...

Two survivors of a deadly five-vehicle accident on Interstate 55 remained in critical condition Wednesday in a Joliet hospital as Will County authorities approved preliminary reckless homicide charges against an...

Most Loop transit services were expected to be restored Tuesday following a series of tests that determined a water main break and a brief flood Monday caused no structural damage...

Commuters in the Loop should expect delays and crowding on elevated trains at least through Tuesday morning's rush hour, transit officials warned, after an underground water main ruptured Monday and...

Gov. George Ryan's plan to block executions of Death Row inmates until a state panel examines whether the capital punishment system in Illinois is working will not keep prosecutors from...

Saying she hopes to resolve long-standing accounting errors, Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas is withholding more than $140 million expected by schools and other taxing bodies countywide, because she believes...

A former Chicago Park District employee who worked in an after-school program for children was charged on Monday with a series of alleged sexual assaults that involved 12 young boys,...