Graeme Zielinski

A Northwest Side man stabbed his wife and niece to death before killing himself by plunging a kitchen knife into his chest, police said Tuesday. Stefan Peptenar, 35, had lured...

No one was shocked more than Annemarie Libreri when a squad car pulled up to her yard sale this week in a quiet North Side neighborhood. There she was, straightening...

For almost three years, Julio Robles was hunted--not just by the police but by the mother of the 7-year-old Humboldt Park boy he was accused of killing in a random...

Frances Kennedy Johnson turned a sales clerk job into a long retailing career distinguished by such innovations as the bridal registry at Marshall Field & Co. A native of Chicago,...

After living much of her 47 years in southwest Cook County, Rose Lewandowski decided to uproot a few years ago and move to a northern Indiana town of 3,100. "Rose...

The mythological mountain for which Olympians are named has two sides. One month ago, the athletes traveled up the emotional peak of the Atlanta Games, where they paraded in the...

No one was injured Sunday at O'Hare International Airport after a pipe bomb was discovered on a ramp to a private air carrier. Earlier, two separate phoned-in bomb threats forced...

The acting police chief of Ford Heights is in federal custody and prosecutors want to keep him there, saying he is a danger to the community. On Friday, Jack Davis,...

Saying "the time was ripe" for a new leader, Illinois Racing Board Chairman Gary Starkman resigned from his post of six years Tuesday. According to sources, one potential successor is...

Twelve-year-old Martrell Domion Baker hopped on his bike Thursday to join friends celebrating the 4th of July in a nearby park. But amid the innocent popping of firecrackers came a...