Joel Hood

A suburban Chicago woman has been charged with a hate crime for allegedly yanking the head scarf of a Muslim woman in Tinley Park two days after the shootings at...

In Joliet, a city saddled with debt and soaring costs, Evergreen Terrace is the problem that just won't go away. City leaders have called the federally subsidized housing complex perched...

In a decision that will affect about 250 adults with disabilities and some 700 employees, Gov. Pat Quinn on Friday announced the closing of the beleaguered Howe Developmental Center in...

For two years Chezare Warren taught math at a middle school on Chicago's South Side, weathering the kind of situations that keeps so many men from pursuing teaching careers at...

The volatile vibe remained at this year's holiday fireworks and food festival along Chicago's lakefront, and authorities Saturday detailed the arrests of eight people accused of carrying guns or knives...

Do you have the worst commute in Chicagoland? Do you suffer through gridlock on the North Side? The cracked and bumpy streets on the South Side? Are you marooned in...

First came horror. Then came intrigue. And now, profit. The famous "Garza Stone", a 5-pound chunk of meteorite that crashed into a suburban Park Forest home in 2003, will go...

Drew Peterson, whose third wife died mysteriously and fourth wife vanished, had taunted authorities to come and get him -- when he wasn't clowning for the cameras. On Thursday, they...