Joel Hood

Chicago Police Supt. Jody Weis on Saturday unveiled a citywide gang-enforcement strategy to root out crime in gang-infested neighborhoods and reduce the city's soaring homicide rate. Leo Schmitz, the Police...

Does this season of "Survivor" have you down in the dumps? Is "Dancing with the Stars" not doing it for you anymore? Here's some sobering news for couch potatoes: A...

We don't have any reports -- yet -- of his image appearing in a tortilla. But a host of items the president-elect actually touched are stirring excitement, speculation and, perhaps,...

How's this for sexual equality? Though men are still overwhelmingly more likely to cheat on their spouses than women, the fairer sex is gaining ground. A study of infidelity sponsored...

Julian King comes across as an adored little boy, hamming it up, on the MySpace pages of his mother, Julia Hudson. A smiling 7-year-old who was big for his age...

Tragedy and mystery engulfed the family of actress Jennifer Hudson as police searched for her nephew and questioned her brother-in-law in connection with the slayings of her mother and brother....

It seems many folks have a soft spot for the hard, wooden picnic tables being sold by the Cook County Forest Preserve District -- despite the warnings. As of midday...

By now, you might think we know just about all there is to know about Abraham Lincoln. But what did the Great Emancipator eat? A clue? The name of the...

Here's a stretch. Parents and religious leaders in upstate New York are up in arms over a public school district offering yoga instruction to students, claiming it violates the separation...

Escalating construction costs have the Will County Board trying to complete much-needed road projects as quickly as possible. The board on Thursday approved the first step in a $200 million...