Jerry Shnay

A Markham man accused of robbing a fast-food restaurant in Tinley Park and who allegedly tried to flee from police by leaping on top of a pursuing squad car, had...

A city councilman wants to use riverboat gaming revenue to eliminate a $5.50 monthly fee charged to all homeowners to pay off a $12.25 million storm sewer bond issue. Robert...

The City Council has approved a plan to spend $1.2 million for some sorely needed Fire Department equipment but decided to save about $500,000 in interest by dipping into its...

The condition of the Joliet doctor who was shot by her husband before he committed suicide was upgraded Tuesday from critical to serious condition at St. Joseph Medical Center. Dorothea...

A Mokena man has been charged with sexually assaulting a 5-year-old girl who lived less than a block from his home. Kenneth Bakalik Jr., 28, was found hiding in the...

Almost three years to the day after a killer tornado roared through Plainfield and Crest Hill and took 29 lives, a lawsuit was filed in federal court charging the National...

A Joliet man who told the judge he was "a perfect role model" for his two children, was sentenced Monday to 5 years in prison after being convicted of fatally...

A bandit robbed the First National Bank in downtown Joliet Wednesday of an undetermined amount of cash after handing a note to a teller that demanded the money and implied...

The fix-it lists of area municipalities just got shorter, under the new Illinois budget that makes the income tax surcharge permanent. For most communities, the change will result in less...

When Jeffrey Stephens was fatally shot in front of his two-story home in rural Will County in November 1991 and his wife was bound, brutally beaten, raped and shot, the...