Jennifer Lenhart

Along a Tilden High School hallway dotted with student election posters, a tatter of yellow police tape clung Friday afternoon to a locker, marking the place where DeLondyn Lawson died....

A 10-year-old Roseland girl heard the shots that killed her mother and two others early Wednesday, police said. She discovered the bodies and became a key source of information as...

Cabrini-Green residents watched the moving trucks with particular interest on Wednesday. The trucks were supposed to transport them to safer housing within the complex, but some residents feared moving to...

Anthony Garrett, the man charged in the slaying of a 7-year-old Cabrini-Green child, had just finished a part-time job a few weeks ago: He was hired to work as a...

A 33-year-old man with a record of weapons offenses was charged Wednesday with the sniper slaying of a Cabrini-Green child whose death has sparked calls for National Guard intervention and...

The tree-lined residential streets in South Shore are tranquil during the day. The sounds heard there are typical of a neighborhood-people talking as they walk along the sidewalks, cars pulling...

A former boyfriend held a woman hostage for 3 1/2 hours Friday in a Michigan Avenue office and sexually assaulted her before surrendering, police said. Police said the assailant, who...

Death for the graceful young beluga whales, known to animal trainers as Nos. 4 and 6, came in the chilly waters of a 30,000-gallon marine mammal medical pool at the...

Tammy Zywicki`s family and friends were straining under the pressure of the wait Wednesday night, as they confronted the unthinkable. They won`t know until Thursday or possibly Friday whether a...

Growing up in Mississippi, Thomas ''Jerry'' Hodges could pick home-grown peas and walk the land at his grandfather`s farm, but what he really wanted was urban grit. ''Our parents died...