Evan Osnos

As most Chicagoans hunkered down against what forecasters warned could be the coldest nights so far this season, Chicago Housing Authority holdout Verlee Gant cranked up the stove and dug...

For more than 50 years, Susie Irvin held court regularly on the porch of her South Side brick bungalow, chatting with a steady flow of neighbors while keeping close tabs...

The parents of Rolling Meadows High School junior Robert Komosa, paralyzed after running head-on into a metal fence post during a football drill, filed a lawsuit Thursday against Township High...

The 29-year-old son of U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush remained in critical condition at a south suburban hospital Tuesday night after more than 10 hours of surgery on bullet wounds he...

Chicago police continued to search Tuesday for two men they believe are responsible for shooting Huey Rich, the 29-year-old son of U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush. Rich, of the 7900 block...

One of the city's more closely watched Traffic Court cases--involving a June police chase on the South Side that ended with an officer fatally shooting an unarmed passenger--could result in...

The reasoning of 16-year-old Joe Binder of Lisle is typical of teenagers who opt for a once-obscure variety of Indian cigarettes called "bidis." "If I'm going to inhale noxious fumes,...

Authorities today are investigating how a 10-year-old boy who was visiting Lincoln Park Zoo with a friend drowned in a zoo lagoon sometime Tuesday afternoon or evening. The body of...

Chicago police divers on Monday evening pulled the bodies of a woman and two children from a car that had plunged into Lake Michigan near Buckingham Fountain. The woman was...

A horticulturist by trade, John Beaudry held forth like a community visionary as he described how planting shrubs and bulbs along a scraggly North Side stretch of railroad will breathe...