Jerry Crimmins

Two men who allegedly staged a daylight robbery of a savings and loan association building in Burbank while armed with a fake gun Friday were arrested by Burbank police just...

An American citizen from the Detroit area has been arrested and jailed in Yugoslavia on a charge of participating in political demonstrations in the United States, according to an official...

Wilmette Police surrounded a house at 336 N. Sheridan Rd. Tuesday night because a young man was reported to be inside with guns and a pipe bomb, possibly threatening members...

The Citizens Utility Board will file a complaint Tuesday with the Illinois Commerce Commission alleging that Commonwealth Edison has overcharged numerous customers on a relatively new item on their electric...

Mayor Harold Washington`s supporters Thursday vowed a three-front attack on the petitions seeking a referendum for a nonpartisan mayoral election and on a controversial Chicago Board of Election Commissioners` decision...

Negotiators in Springfield who manufactured the apparent agreement between Gov. James Thompson and Mayor Harold Washington for the proposed $180 million stadium south of the Loop forgot a key element....

For 30 minutes, while an angry man held a knife to a woman passenger aboard a Swissair jet and a small crowd watched from the rear of the plane, Leroy...

A Bulgarian ''drifter,'' who allegedly held a woman hostage aboard a jetliner at O`Hare International Airport, is believed by authorities to have carried a knife used in the attack in...

Public school children and most employees of the City of Chicago and Cook County took the day off Monday in honor of a hero of the American Revolution who is...

A United Airlines plane with 50 passengers and a crew of 6 made an emergency landing at O`Hare International Airport on only two if its three landing gears Thursday after...