Jerry Shnay

Five south suburbs, led by Harvey, have formed a Civic Center Authority in hopes of getting state funds either to develop a convention and exposition center or to take over...

Prison officials described Monday the escape of six inmates from a Joliet maximum security prison as a ''serious breach in security'' and launched an investigation why jail guards failed to...

For 10 years, Jim Breen and his family seemed to live a life of peace and quiet along the banks of the Kankakee River in rural Will County. If there...

Calumet City has taken the first step toward creating a local housing authority, a move that one city official says is needed to deal with a growing problem in the...

On March 8, Chicago Heights police making a routine traffic stop arrested a man and found 92 packets of what they believed was cocaine. Fifty-six days later, all charges were...

After hearing that a majority of students at Homewood-Flossmoor High School support a controversial plan to randomly test student athletes for drugs, the school board gave final approval to the...

What began as a routine traffic stop in Salt Lake City nearly two years ago led to a series of drug smuggling arrests on Monday that extended from Joliet to...

Rev. Paul Hall, a prominent South Side minister convicted of sexually attacking a teenage boy in his care, was sentenced Thursday to 4 years in prison. Hall, 43, the founder...

Ten people were killed in traffic accidents in Cook County, five of them while riding motorcycles, during the 4th of July weekend from Friday night through Tuesday night, authorities said....

Lawyers for a south suburban teenager who was shot by a Robbins police officer last week filed suit Tuesday in Cook County Circuit Court against both the officer and the...