Ilaina Jonas

Round Lake Area Park District director Robert Rolek stepped down Monday from the position he has held for 15 years to join the Chicago law firm of Ancel, Glink, Diamond,...

Medical officials in the Chicago area reported on Saturday dozens of heat-related deaths, even as temperatures finally dipped below record levels. In Cook County alone, heat caused or contributed to...

Cook County morgue workers have handled airline crashes and large apartment fires, but nothing, they say, compared to the weekend's unprecedented heat-related death toll. That grim tally reached 54 Saturday...

A substitute teacher at Waukegan Career Academy has been sentenced to 18 months in confinement and 3 years of probation after pleading guilty to sexually abusing a 15-year-old girl. Lake...

Traffic along Sunset Avenue, between Lewis and Greenwood Avenues, east of North Avenue, has been reduced to two lanes, while Phase II of the Sunset Avenue reconstruction project is under...

Five men on a sailboat trip from Chicago to Racine spent five hours in Lake Michigan and swam miles to safety after their 85-year-old schooner sank early Saturday about 10...

On the eve of the grand opening Friday of Navy Pier's $3.2 million Ferris wheel, the head of the authority overseeing the pier's operations turned on the television and saw...

Forget the calendar. According to scores of office workers, commuters and beach bum wanna-bes, summer started Friday. It's the season of abbreviated work schedules, skeleton crews and informal work attire...

Steinmetz High School students are hearing it everywhere. On the bus, at sporting events, at work, the accusation is the same: You're a cheater. As a dramatic week comes to...

The neat 15-page handwritten essay is titled "Confession." It contains a cover letter from the student author to an English teacher at Steinmetz High School that begins: "The following story...