Janan Hanna

Even in the numbing violence of today's world, some crimes still shock the conscience. The outburst that left Peter and Diana Robles dead, their throats slashed and bodies stabbed, is...

The Illinois National Guard Armory just east of downtown Woodstock is filled with memories. They are memories that center not so much on the wood and masonry structure itself, but...

A year has passed since 17-year-old John Anzelmo was killed in a gang shooting across from Maine East High School, prompting township residents to mobilize against gangs. What followed was...

A Hanover Park man was killed early Sunday morning in a two-car crash in Des Plaines, police said. Mahadan Patel, 48, was traveling west on Touhy Avenue in the northwest...

Police are searching for an armed robber who held up Park National Bank Saturday morning and fled with a bag of money. The bank at 2100 S. Elmhurst Rd. was...

The call was different from most that came in to the special task force investigating the Palatine massacre. This one was from the Crystal Lake police who said they had...

Charges were brought against two Chicago men in connection with the armed robbery of a movie house Saturday night that began with the holdup of eight movie-house employees and ended...

Police Cpl. Mark Kaspar was taken for a ride early Saturday morning, but the driver wasn't his partner. Kaspar ended up in the flatbed of a 1993 pickup truck that...

Education and abused children may be "community priorities," as Gov. Jim Edgar said Wednesday, but so are police protection, garbage pickup and political loyalty. That's what frustrated Chicago-area municipal leaders...

In a remote section of unincorporated Barrington, paddock fences, horse stables and towering trees adorn the landscapes of five-acre lots. The arrival, then, of 200 tires, a 20-foot bright blue...