Jack Houston

Two teenage girls missing for 7 1/2 years from their suburban Chicago home were reunited Tuesday with their mother, who flew to Kettering, Ohio, after neighbors and school officials there...

Amid a growing furor over the decision to send Gary Dotson back to prison, Cathleen Crowell Webb said Friday that she is willing to be tried for committing perjury at...

A third patient hospitalized for symptoms of salmonella poisoning has died, a spokeswoman for the Cook County medical examiner said Thursday, while two other deaths in the area are also...

A Chicago police officer fatally shot a man early Tuesday while searching a high-crime South Side public housing project building for a shotgun-wielding intruder. Police said no gun was found...

Andrew Kokoraleis, who has been convicted of one murder and charged with three others, avoided the death penalty Friday when a Criminal Court jury could not agree on whether it...

After grousing all winter that city snowplows had ignored side streets, many Chicagoans complained Wednesday when the snowplows finally got to their streets. Chris Scherer was one who didn`t like...

Mobster Charles English, 70, once the crime syndicate`s boss of jukebox, gambling and other rackets on the West Side, was shot to death Wednesday night in the parking lot of...

FRIGID CANADIAN AIR, borne on powerful winds, raced across the Chicago area and the rest of the Midwest Friday, causing whiteouts and ''ground blizzards'' and piling up drifts that rendered...

CHARGES BY a Ralph Nader group that several chemical and steel mill operations near Chicago pose cancer risks to workers evoked denials Thursday and countercharges that the accusations are based...