Jeff Long

Melanie Beltran's life was brief and painful--and it ended Wednesday at her mother's hand, police said. "This was a short life in hell," said Cook County Sheriff Thomas Dart. Over...

Police credited detailed witness descriptions with leading them quickly to a North Side coffee shop, where they found a homeless woman who was charged with murder Monday in the arson...

Chicago police on Sunday questioned a homeless woman they consider a "person of interest" in setting a Wrigleyville fire that killed four friends and severely injured another, all of whom...

The first dreary, damp day of March found state and local officials keeping close watch for flooding, especially on rivers where ice jams posed the biggest threat. The combined effect...

A Schaumburg man was fatally stabbed as he answered a knock on the front door, and a Niles man was shot to death in violence Wednesday in quiet suburban neighborhoods....

After driving the streets for a predawn look at the snow-blown roads, Harry Griffith made his final call early Tuesday: The Lake Forest public schools would stay open. Then this...

Calling a next-door neighbor will require dialing 11 digits in the 815 area code come Feb. 17--a change likely to spread across most of Illinois in coming years as phone-number...

They love their horses at the Hooved Animal Humane Society in Woodstock. But they love the Bears too. And when on Thursday, so close to the Super Bowl, one of...

At first, employee Diego Lona-Lopez said, it was the usual scene at the Ice Bar early Saturday morning: Drinks flowed and hip-hop music played as more than 100 people packed...

I really wanted to talk to her. Not to ask for her phone number, nor to flatter her with cheesy compliments about her blond hair. But I never got the...