Flynn McRoberts

Former Chicago police officer Gregory Becker, who had to be carried out of court on a stretcher last month after his conviction on armed violence and other charges, was sentenced...

In one snapshot, Andrew Cunanan seems all innocence--a baby-faced preppy with horned-rim glasses and a fetching grin. In another, he appears a gaunt, angular gigolo, with lips thinly pursed, dark...

For three hours Sunday night, two strangers sat next to each other on a bus from New York City to Scranton, Pa. They chatted amiably, and as the bus neared...

Calling him desperate and panicked, authorities dramatically expanded the hunt for Andrew Phillip Cunanan on Saturday after a 45-year-old cemetery caretaker became the latest victim in what they believe is...

Cabrini-Green erupted in gunfire Tuesday evening after a Chicago Housing Authority police officer shot an unarmed resident. Police said the officer's weapon discharged during a struggle with a crowd that...

Mayor Richard Daley's plan to extend health insurance benefits to the partners of homosexual city workers does not follow programs already in effect in other big cities, where unmarried heterosexual...

The bells of St. Mary and more than 200 other churches tolled for the cardinal Friday morning in a simultaneous expression of mourning and reassurance. When the services were planned...

The man credited with helping clean up the image of the Chicago Housing Authority police has resigned, just days after the third in a series of high-profile drug busts at...

For residents of the Cabrini-Green public housing complex, redevelopment always has been a code word for kicking them off valuable land. On Thursday, they announced efforts to block that perceived...

Spend some time listening to Dick Durbin, and you're apt to get an odd feeling that you've heard this stuff before. Then take a look at the record he's compiled...