Jerry Crimmins

Four teenagers were shot, one of them fatally, Thursday outside a building in the Robert Taylor Homes just a few yards north of the Terrell elementary school while classes were...

''An abortion of the criminal justice system'' and ''justification of racism in its ugliest form'' were among the milder reactions of two Chicago community leaders Wednesday to the acquittals of...

One man died and 11 people were injured, 2 critically, Friday night when a fast-spreading extra-alarm fire roared through a Maywood apartment building. A child was thrown to safety from...

A man police identified as Wayne T. Chaney, the Des Plaines resident accused of gunning down his estranged wife at her work place, was shot to death Friday night in...

The controversial president of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston announced Monday that he will retire July 31 after nine years in office. In his explanation, President Stan Rives cited important...

Gunfire erupted inside the crowded Jefferson Square Mall in Joliet Thursday afternoon, wounding two teenagers and causing temporary pandemonium near the scene of the shooting, according to witnesses. ''I heard...

A 16-year-old youth armed with two automatic weapons fired on other young people near Calumet High School as the school was emptying Monday and wounded four teenagers, two of them...

Four-year-old twins, who police said were routinely locked in a bathroom linen closet and left unattended for hours, died Wednesday after starting a fire in the closet with matches. Rafael...

The movie title is ''Heaven is a Playground,'' but for a while on Friday, it seemed that it would not play in Niles. Until a U.S. District Court judge ordered...

A controversial settlement of a lawsuit challenging restrictions on Illinois abortion clinics was upheld Tuesday by a divided federal appeals court in Chicago. But one of the judges who voted...