Joseph Kirby

On a few damp, green acres in Sleepy Hollow speckled with wild grass, cornstalks and patches of soybeans, the drug war continued. But there were no gunshots or drug lords...

It was barely enough time for Joanne Pokrajac to buy a small gift. But the 20 minutes the Schaumburg woman spent inside Woodfield Mall, away from her 1991 Chevrolet Astro...

Fresh from the terror of being threatened with death and nearly kidnapped at gunpoint, Joumana Youssef walked into the Du Page County Courthouse last month and sought an order of...

Friends and family say that Chicago police officer Willie Penn Jr. was the perfect role model for the kids in his South Side neighborhood, a respectable and good-humored young man...

If you`re wondering what happened to that new television or videocassette recorder you were expecting from the United Parcel Service, try looking in Wauconda. Three Wauconda men have been arrested...

Though time has all but run out and seven years of protests have yielded small victories, opponents of the controversial Bartlett balefill have launched yet another campaign in a last-ditch...

Property tax rates for most cities, villages and school districts in Lake County will go down slightly in tax bills going out the first week of May. In 20 municipalities...

Responding to the gang-related slaying of a northwest suburban youth, a suburban mayor Thursday called for the reactivation of a disbanded local gang task force, while state lawmakers proposed a...

Keith Hildibrand, 14, stared helplessly at the charred remains of the Maywood apartment building that had been his home. There on Saturday, rescuers searched for the body of his 25-year-old...

A Cook County Circuit Court judge on Friday set bond at $3 million for a 17-year-old Mt. Prospect youth accused of murdering a rival gang member late Wednesday in unincorporated...