Jerry Thornton

A 3-year-old girl who had been left alone briefly died in a fire Tuesday afternoon in a South Side apartment, officials said. Brittany Henderson of 6149 S. Eberhart Ave. suffered...

Chicago was the Windy City Thursday, as 50 m.p.h. gusts, which resulted in the death of one man, blew off rooftops, shattered windows, downed power lines and delayed airline flights...

Before dawn on a dark, cold morning 20 years ago Monday, 14 Chicago police officers showered the run-down apartment of Black Panther leader Fred Hampton with bullets and left scars...

One youth was killed and six other people were wounded in a series of incidents over the weekend that represented an ''escalating'' gang war in the West Side`s Little Village...

Four South Side teenagers were wounded Monday night in a drive-by shooting on a street police said has been the war zone for rival gangs battling over drug territory for...

A South Side public hearing on school reform, sponsored by a group of black public officials, became a confrontation Monday night between politicians and frustrated parents when no members of...

The 300 people chanting and marching three abreast in a line that stretched along two blocks of a South Side street resembled a 1960s civil rights protest. But racism was...

The four men stood together on the second tee of the Carriage Greens Country Club golf course in Darien Wednesday, huddled beneath an umbrella to protect themselves from the driving...

Ald. Timothy Evans, his mayoral campaign low on cash and faced with a splintered black electorate, roused his troops Sunday evening during a rally that was part political convention and...

Eugene ''Bull'' Hairston, one of the original ''Main 21'' leaders of the Black P Stone Nation street gang, which later became known as El Rukn, was killed in an apparent...