Jerry Crimmins

A dentist who has treated patients at the Metropolitan Correction Center, Chicago`s federal prison, filed a lawsuit Friday trying to prevent the Bureau of Prisons from disclosing the fact that...

That lawn looked so green and lush this spring. You didn`t even mind mowing it. Now it has turned brown because of too little rain and too much heat. You`d...

A south suburban couple have contracted an unusual form of the HIV virus, allegedly from a blood transfusion the wife received in 1985 at South Shore Hospital, according to the...

In a victory for Illinois anglers, the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday unanimously declared Illinois up to 100 feet longer, and the winner in its Ohio River border dispute with...

A religion professor at the University of Chicago, a Romanian native, was found shot to death Tuesday in a locked bathroom stall in the university`s School of Divinity, Chicago police...

Eight people were injured, four of them seriously, when two cars collided at Douglas Boulevard and Homan Avenue on Friday afternoon, knocking down at least three pedestrians crossing the street....

A woman`s body was found Wednesday buried in the basement of a South Side building undergoing renovation, and police said they were questioning a young man believed to be the...

Four persons, including a high school wrestler, were arrested Thursday on charges that they attacked and beat Ben Ward, the 49-year-old wrestling coach for Julian High School, during a Tuesday...

A veteran lieutenant with the Cook County Sheriff`s Police was arrested Friday morning by Chicago police and charged with possession of narcotics ''believed to be heroin,'' said the press secretary...

Two quick-thinking women turned the tables on three would-be robbers who invaded a Berwyn home at gunpoint Monday afternoon seeking guns, money and valuables, authorities said. The men terrorized the...