Jerry Shnay

Last year, Mayor Richard Daley derided them as putt-putts. On Wednesday, they became his gondolas of gold. "This is truly the equivalent of a gold rush," Gery Chico, Daley's chief...

A Joliet man accused of fatally shooting the person who allegedly stole his gold chains was convicted Tuesday night of second-degree murder by a Will County jury. Eddie Jones, 18,...

A jury began listening to evidence Monday in the murder trial of a Joliet man accused of shooting his victim in the back. Eddie Lee Jones, 19, is charged with...

A July trial date was set Monday in Will County for a Rockdale man accused of attempting to hire someone to kill the man who brutally murdered his mother two...

Four men found by Lansing police in a van with $5.5 million have told authorities they were very surprised about the money, it was not theirs, and "They came to...

An 18-year-old Mokena man with a penchant for aliases and all-black attire was being questioned in connection with the murder and dismemberment of a man found in Barrington, authorities said...

When students at the Thornton Fractional South High School first picked a school emblem in 1958, they believed a Confederate flag was not a symbol of racism but merely a...

Orland Park Mayor-elect Dan McLaughlin may not be a newcomer to politics, but neither were the three contenders he beat out Tuesday. Two of them had even served as the...

Voters helped reshape the political landscape of the south suburbs Tuesday, but although that call included the election of the youngest mayor in Calumet City history, it didn't reach into...

Before he boarded train No. 12, bound for Chicago, 10-year-old Eric Logan Hoffhines implored his mother not to send him alone. "It was only his second time on the train...