Jerry Crimmins

The truck driver who police said caused the chain-reaction accident that killed four people and injured 10 on the Edens Expressway at Clavey Road has told investigators he was distracted...

Jesse Jackson said Wednesday that he was seeking 1,000 off-duty police officers and 1,000 citizens to volunteer three hours a week to patrol Chicago`s streets, trains and schools without pay....

A state prison inmate serving time for murder took four people hostage Monday-including two prison guards and a 69-year-old farmer-during an escape attempt that wound through three counties before the...

The state`s second offering of tax-exempt college bonds, intended to help parents defray the cost of their children`s college tuition, will be announced this week, a spokesman for Gov. James...

The deal that the City of St. Petersburg offered to the Chicago White Sox to lure the team to Florida was ''dramatically, substantially, overpoweringly less'' than the deal the Sox...

J. Paul Brownridge, whose controversial tenure as city treasurer of Grand Rapids, Mich., included being placed on probation by the Grand Rapids City Commission earlier this year, was named revenue...

White Sox veteran Minnie Minoso, wiping tears from his eyes, got the biggest cheers. Young women became speechless when they met Carlton Fisk. And Sox owners Jerry Reinsdorf and Eddie...

The Chicago area completed its 23d day without significant rain Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service, and forecasters were predicting no rain until at least Sunday. The Central Weather...

Chicago police and a delegation of aldermen Wednesday removed a painting from the School of the Art Institute that one aldermen described as ''an insult to Harold Washington, an insult...

A drawbridge on the Calumet River fell on an ocean-going freighter Friday night, crushing part of the ship`s superstructure, trapping the ship underneath and blocking the river, witnesses and authorities...