Flynn McRoberts

A 14-year-old resident of the Rockwell Gardens public housing development was fatally shot in the neck late Wednesday, less than 24 hours before a planned police sweep of the troubled...

As if drawn by some pied piper, the children arrive in steady streams at this converted Chicago Housing Authority apartment. They come for breakfast and boxed lunches, neatly prepared-and free....

The Englewood neighborhood, once Chicago's most murderous, marveled last winter as an interlude of peace settled over the community-66 days without a homicide. Residents and police credited the lull to...

In the wake of four financial scandals at the Chicago Housing Authority, Chairman Vincent Lane announced Sunday that 12 employees will either be fired, reassigned or given early retirement. Lane...

Officials overseeing the Chicago Housing Authority employee benefits plan apparently failed to use standard safeguards to detect an investment scheme that federal regulators say may have cost the plan millions...

A hunch that a murder suspect might be aboard a Milwaukee-bound Greyhound led police into a standoff with an empty bus on the Tri-State Tollway near Deerfield, stranding thousands of...

A 24-year-old man was killed by a sniper's bullet as he stood on a ninth-floor outdoor walkway at the Robert Taylor Homes Tuesday afternoon, police said. Andre Britt was shot...

A Valparaiso, Ind., teenager whose mother operated a home day-care business is facing formal allegations of molesting some of the children who stayed there, four years after a complaint was...

Looking to energize supporters for a closing surge in a close Democratic gubernatorial race, Illinois Atty. Gen. Roland Burris picked up endorsements Friday from both ends of the party spectrum:...

While Roland Burris and Dawn Clark Netsch traded jabs Monday over a life-and-death issue, their trailing rival for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination teamed up with Daffy Duck. Cook County Board...