Joseph Kirby

Amy Nuzzo lived every day of her life to the fullest. Her only real fear, she recently wrote in a school essay, was death. Amy, 12, was killed Thursday morning...

Apparently even bank robbers believe imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Proof of that came Wednesday morning when a Wheeling bank was robbed by a man authorities believe has...

A Chicago resident who allegedly stabbed to death a Lake Barrington man in a dispute over $3 was being held in Cook County Jail Monday in lieu of a $1...

A federal appeals court in Chicago has declined to rehear an appeal from attorneys for Wheeling Police Chief Michael Haeger, who in 1990 was found guilty of discriminating against a...

Despite a pending appeal and lawsuit against their construction permit, the developers of a school and mosque near rural Gilberts have begun work on the foundation. Meanwhile, the attorney for...

Five-year-old Aja Brown didn`t know what to make of the tuxedo-clad figure in the tiny blue casket. She grasped her mother`s hand as she stood on tiptoes and peered inside....

Not long ago, the idea of an off-track betting parlor coming to a community might have sparked loud and angry protests, with critics arming themselves with petitions or carrying picket...

A man who claimed to have a handgun walked into a Park Ridge bank shortly after noon Thursday and made off with an undetermined amount of money, authorities said. No...

Law enforcement officials said Thursday they were investigating claims by a Streamwood man, arrested this week for burglary, that much of the property found in a search of his home...

The Chicago area is estimated to have more than 300 murals scattered across it, inside and on the sides of buildings, schools and restaurants. Here are some areas in the...