Jerry Crimmins

A Metra commuter train struck three Villa Park junior high students as they were walking home from school in the snow Wednesday afternoon, killing one of them and injuring the...

Chicago area residents coped with an arctic cold wave Tuesday and early Wednesday, when temperatures plunged at midnight to minus 9 at O`Hare International Airport and threatened to break the...

At least 16 people died Tuesday as a result of the biggest snowfall in the Chicago area in five years. Most of the deaths were caused by shoveling wet, heavy...

The proposed stadium for the Chicago Bears moved another step toward reality Tuesday when the Bears and their developer, Metropolitan Structures, announced the selection of architects to design a stadium....

Waterlogged residents of metropolitan Chicago, weary from nearly two weeks of floods and cleanup, braced for another surge of flooding after an all-day storm Wednesday dumped almost 3 inches of...

Waterlogged residents of metropolitan Chicago braced for another surge of flooding on Wednesday as a heavy rainfall soaked already-saturated low-lying sections of the city and suburbs with more than two...

Alex Ladenson, 79, chief librarian of the Chicago Public Library from 1967 to 1975, years of great changes in the library, died Thursday in Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Among the innovations...

Family and friends of a young man shot to death 10 months ago on the North Side while riding a bicycle are offering $10,000 in a last-ditch effort to capture...

Edwin C. ''Bill'' Berry, 76, a nationally renowned civil rights leader who was executive director of the Chicago Urban League for 14 years and who headed Mayor Harold Washington`s first...

A broad base of dissatisfaction with Chicago`s election apparatus exists among groups who agree that the system must be changed but can`t get together on how. Until some middle ground...