Evan Osnos

When Sears, Roebuck and Co. announced it was closing its State Street flagship back in 1982, Chicago business leaders worried that the retail heart of the city would never recover--with...

To avoid a repeat of the sort of mechanical and communication breakdowns that crippled the Chicago Transit Authority during January's blizzard, the CTA should streamline its winter emergency plan and...

A man who bolted through a security checkpoint Thursday afternoon at O'Hare International Airport forced an evacuation of the United Airlines terminal, sending thousands of passengers into the street, snarling...

As community activists met in Chicago Thursday to figure out ways to fight crime in the Englewood neighborhood, a family involved in one of its more notorious murders announced a...

Hot-wiring a car is not typically considered the best preparation for wannabe cops--especially if that car belongs to a Chicago police captain. But that logic seems to have been lost...

Commonwealth Edison suffered another high-profile outage Sunday morning when a transformer failed at the Field Museum, forcing the lakefront institution to close on a day that officials had expected would...

Coast Guard officials Thursday evening suspended the largest search and rescue operation on Lake Michigan in five years, acknowledging they had abandoned hope of finding a 5-year-old Hinsdale girl alive...

Battling poor visibility and rough waters, the U.S. Coast Guard continued a scaled-down search for a 5-year-old Hinsdale girl Thursday afternoon, acknowledging that the chances of finding her alive after...

Two bodies found in Lake Michigan today have been identified by family members as those of a Hinsdale man and one of his two daughters. The three have been missing...

Faced with an unprecedented teacher shortage as students prepare to return to school next week, the Archdiocese of Chicago is scrambling to fill hundreds of empty teachers' desks at area...