Evan Osnos

White supremacist Matthew Hale's bid to practice law in Illinois has received a boost from the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois, which has filed a legal brief in support...

Until this summer, Maria Tai and her husband, Warren, never saw much reason to publicize their devotion to Falun Gong, a once obscure Chinese system of philosophy and physical exercise...

Long before the sun rose, a stream of police squadrols pulled up to the loading dock of the Cook County medical examiner's office. One by one, police delivered the dead--mostly...

On a warm spring morning last year, Benjamin Nathaniel Smith walked to his car and found a scrap of paper pinned beneath his windshield wiper. The flier touted a bold...

Two teens were shot to death in a car in the Gresham neighborhood Wednesday evening, just a block from where two 17-year-olds were gunned down in April. Marcus Mull, 19,...

His cheek propped on a pudgy hand, a 10-year-old murder suspect dozed at the defense table Monday while a juvenile court judge threw out the alleged confession he made to...

The most infamous white supremacist group in America, the Ku Klux Klan, counted at its peak as many as 4.5 million followers nationwide, largely an older membership anchored in the...

Just months before killing himself at the end of an alleged hate-driven shooting spree, Benjamin Smith told the banal tale of his conversion to white supremacy. "What set me into...

A Lombard man initially suspected of carrying a bomb crashed a car into the James R. Thompson Center in downtown Chicago Wednesday morning, forcing the evacuation of the building, which...

Mike Coombs and his wife, Colleen, never thought that having triplets would prove to be a financial boon. And, of course, it's not. But the Coombses of west suburban Oak...