Jeff Zeleny

One week before Election Day, Texas Gov. George W. Bush dispatched his chief foreign policy adviser to the North Shore to court African-American and women voters in his quest to...

Political rallies seldom require the use of earplugs. But when Ralph Nader came to the Chicago campus of the University of Illinois on Tuesday night, with Eddie Vedder of Pearl...

U.S. Senate candidates Hillary Rodham Clinton and Rep. Rick Lazio pummeled each other for an hour Wednesday night in their first face-to-face debate. They did not shake hands at the...

Secretary of State Inspector General James Burns will review allegations that a hearing officer was improperly pressured to change a ruling so a driver involved in a fatal hit-and-run accident...

Testifying through an interpreter at his trial last month, Bronislaw Hajda insisted he had been a victim of the Nazis himself during World War II, forced to work at a...

A 2-year-old girl was critically wounded Thursday afternoon in what police say was a drive-by shooting outside a West Side public housing complex. Raneisha Jackson, who celebrated her birthday on...

As a 13-year-old Chicago boy lay unconscious in a Cook County Hospital bed Sunday night, authorities charged three teenagers with trying to beat him to death. Their motive, police said:...

The corruption scandal in the Chicago Police Department spread to the South Side on Tuesday as three officers and an alleged drug dealer were arrested on federal charges of shaking...

A single-engine plane crashed Sunday afternoon moments after taking off from DuPage Airport, authorities said, slightly injuring two people on board. Shortly before 2 p.m., three people took off in...

Viola Brown doesn't know anything about Michael Jordan, but she knows plenty about birthdays and so can speak with authority when she says the Bulls superstar should view his 34th...