Jeff Long

A Cook County judge asked a state board this week for a more complete explanation of its reasons for approving Sherman Hospital's plan to build a $310 million hospital on...

Two Illinois State Police investigators resorted to physical and mental brutality as they tried to persuade a man to recant accusations of excessive brutality that he and his brother had...

Memories of homecoming festivities gave way to mementos of grief Monday as McHenry County high school students mourned a classmate killed in a crash after she had left a weekend...

The alarm rings at Mary Ellen Patterson's McHenry County home, and she's off--skirting the traffic jams at the high school, motoring down Lake-Cook Road, catching the 7:11 a.m. train at...

Eunice Nombulelo Mangwane moved from Cape Town, South Africa, to the tiny seaside village of Hamburg and found a community ravaged by AIDS. Named for the hometown of its early...

Chicago aldermen have cracked down on foie gras, public smoking, noisy street musicians and drivers yakking on cell phones. Now they want to microchip Fido. A City Council ordinance likely...

The divers dived, the rowers rowed and the tennis players traded searing ground strokes Sunday. If the protesters hadn't protested, the seventh Gay Games would have looked like any other...

Toni A. Jones-Ellen, 56, didn't need to check the thermometer or flick on the Weather Channel to know what the day was going to be like when she woke up...

In news that cast a pall over their summer vacations, 627 students who recently took the ACT college-entrance exam at five Illinois high schools learned that their tests were discarded...

The man fatally shot by police after allegedly strangling an elderly Marengo woman last weekend was a Mexican national who arrived in the U.S. six months ago, officials said Thursday....