Janan Hanna

A 19-year-old Elgin man on Thursday pleaded guilty to the brutal sexual assault of a 4-year-old girl for whom he was baby-sitting. Jaime Arellano was sentenced to 18 years in...

Rachel Ross, a 19-year-old former honor student from Palatine, spent 93 days in jail after she and several others were charged with vandalizing a Hoffman Estates home while its owners...

A housing court judge has ordered the cleanup of an apartment building that city officials were forced to evacuate last month because of what they termed deplorable living conditions. If...

Two years ago, Diane Abbinanti lost a good friend to AIDS. Since then, she has been active with AIDS awareness groups and has been caring for her HIV-infected roommate. But...

It was something Elgin city officials had been eagerly awaiting for more than a year: downtown streets alive with activity, filled with lines of cars and clusters of pedestrians. It...

Ever since Dr. Richard Ragsdale initiated a lengthy legal battle to protect his Rockford abortion clinic, he has been simultaneously praised as a champion by women's rights activists and derided...

A 22-year-old Chicago man was indicted Wednesday on one count of attempted murder for allegedly shooting a man after an argument outside the Interlude Apartment Complex in Hoffman Estates. A...

A Cook County circuit judge Wednesday refused to admit into evidence phone records that purportedly show a relationship between three men charged with murder in the 1988 killing of Dana...

The first thing many people noticed about commodities broker Thomas W. Collins was his limousine. It was long, white and often everywhere Collins went: work, business meetings, weekend getaways. But...

For months, Peter Corasis had heard the success stories. Over and over, he was told of businessmen who made a 50, 60 even 70 percent returns on their investments after...