Jerry Thornton

A 35-year-old man, believed to be from Glencoe, was charged with two counts of murder by Florida police Monday in the deaths of his two sons in an apparent failed...

With his pleas of innocence rejected by the courts and Gov. Jim Edgar, convicted murderer Girvies Davis was executed by lethal injection early Wednesday in Stateville Correctional Center near Joliet....

One rookie Chicago police officer was fatally shot and a second was hospitalized with bullet wounds suffered Wednesday afternoon in a furious shootout with a suspect after a burglary report...

A 14-year-old resident of the Rockwell Gardens public housing development was fatally shot in the neck late Wednesday, less than 24 hours before a planned police sweep of the troubled...

Village officials agreed this week to expand summer street improvement projects to reduce stormwater drainage problems. Two additional improvements will be a storm sewer on Emerald Avenue from Crystal to...

A broken main sent a "tidal wave" of water onto the Edens Expressway on Friday night, stalling motorists near the Edens-Kennedy junction for hours and snarling traffic for miles. Water...

A 37-year-old Chicago man drowned Tuesday morning after falling into a retention pond at a Summit junkyard, Summit fire officials said. John Pryor Jr., 37, of 13264 S. Prairie Ave.,...

The line started at 3 p.m. Friday, when one determined woman unfolded a chair on the sidewalk by Welles Park. Several dozen people camped behind her by dusk. And by...

A 2- or 3-day-old baby girl was found Thursday in a cardboard box outside a church, officials said. The girl was taken to Edward Hospital in Naperville, where she was...

Charlotte Golden Kamin, 64, of Highland Park, an author and teacher, died Saturday in Highland Park Hospital. Mrs. Kamin was on the faculty of the Humanities Department of Barat College...