Joe Sjostrom

For nearly a week, police considered Alan Edward Christensen the prime suspect in the beating and stabbing deaths of an elderly Arlington Heights couple during an apparent robbery at their...

A 32-year-old man was shot and killed by an Elk Grove Village police officer Friday afternoon, after officers were reportedly summoned to a suburban printing company by the victim's father...

Mark R. Rice, 34, has joined Smith Engineering Consultants Inc. of McHenry, which provides engineering services for several McHenry County municipalities. Rice will serve as the city engineer for Marengo,...

There were enough strange twists in the final hours of Edwin Keith Wane's life without the need for a dramatic ending. In the course of 12 hours, Wane, 51, of...

Michael Rycek, 14, made his first appearance Monday in adult court, where he faces a murder charge for allegedly shooting his mother Jan. 2 in their Elk Grove Village home....

The Illinois attorney general on Thursday asked the Illinois Supreme Court to set an execution date for Charles Albanese, who was convicted 12 years ago in the poisoning deaths of...

The City Council has rejected a proposal to build a Target store in the village. "The council's vote was on design, location and traffic grounds," said Mayor Edward Rotchford. "It...

One teenager was arrested over the weekend and another was expected to surrender to police late Monday on charges of setting a fire that destroyed a house under construction. The...

When Kate DeMuth set out to look for a job this summer, she was willing to do just about anything-anything, that is, so long as it satisfied just a few...

Lawyers for convicted killer Ronald Alvine said Monday that they will seek to have him declared mentally unfit to be sentenced for the murder of a West Chicago police officer....