Judy Peres

Elizabeth Edwards got the bad news the same day she learned that her husband, John Edwards, would not be the country's next vice president: Like more than 2 million other...

State Sen. Lisa Madigan won the nomination for Illinois attorney general on Tuesday as the formidable Democratic political organization of her father, House Speaker Michael Madigan (D-Chicago), easily dispensed of...

Nearly 2 1/2 years after Chicago police and Cook County prosecutors began videotaping murder confessions, the unraveling of a murder case with a taped confession underscores why some lawmakers and...

As American Jews recite ancient Hebrew prayers for Yom Kippur, which begins at sundown Wednesday, community leaders say they will be mourning those lost in the Sept. 11 terror attacks,...

The decision by a leading gunmaker to stop producing some of its handguns for sale to the public indicates that the firearms industry, like the tobacco industry, is concerned about...

Still grieving for a cousin gunned down on Chicago's South Side last week, 19-year-old Kevin Lawson went Friday to where his relative had died and was killed at the same...

The Chicago area escaped a weekend flood threat with only minor problems as a soggy weather system moved eastward, promising to give way to sunshine on Sunday. "It could have...

The cold didn't kill the newborn baby left on the steps of a West Side church Monday: An autopsy revealed that the child had been stillborn. The Cook County medical...