Jennifer Peltz

Labor lawyer Solomon Hirsh, who represented a union, government regulators and individual workers, died of leukemia Sunday in his Evanston home. Mr. Hirsh, 67, adapted to significant changes in the...

As much as the annual World AIDS Day is a solemn remembrance, in recent years it also has been a time for thanksgiving. While there is still no cure for...

A bank heist gone awry became a 2 1/2-hour standoff with police on the Northwest Side Monday night, as the would-be robber grabbed a customer and held him hostage before...

When former Olympia Fields cardiologist Dr. R. Lance Wilson injected a dying patient with a large drug dose, he wasn't sure that his action would achieve the goal of knocking...

When Kansas drew nationwide attention recently for its decision to eliminate the term "evolution" from its new state school standards, most people in Illinois probably didn't realize that Illinois had...

The 29-year-old son of U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush remained in critical condition at a south suburban hospital Tuesday night after more than 10 hours of surgery on bullet wounds he...

A Catholic priest in Aurora has been arrested on charges that he sexually assaulted several children in California during the mid-1980s. Edward Lawrence Ball, 60, one of 12 priests living...

Up to a point, Tuesday was an ordinary afternoon for kindergartner Blake Born. After a day of paint and blocks, his aunt met him at Bright School. They walked to...