Julie Irwin

A 3-year-old Hazel Crest boy who was staying with relatives while his mother had a baby was accidentally shot and killed Saturday afternoon in Chicago. Christopher Brown was the youngest...

As smoke poured from the brick three-flat on the Far South Side and fire trucks arrived, several families rejoiced Friday night after escaping unharmed, children in tow. But the relief...

It was an outing perfectly suited for a warm spring day: Richard Mar and Diana Penman of Hanover Park packed up their 7-month-old twins in the family van Thursday and...

Chicago police charged three people Saturday in last week's slaying of 10-year-old Rodney Collins during what police called a gang-related gunfight on the South Side. Sean Tyler, 17, of the...

Doctors at Children's Memorial Hospital successfully performed surgery Friday to separate day-old twin girls conjoined at the abdominal wall. The surgery, which lasted eight hours, was performed on Megan and...

Water flowed from the drinking fountains at Daley Elementary School for the first time in six months Wednesday afternoon. All it took was four requisitions to the Chicago Board of...

A North Side man was ordered held without bond Monday for allegedly using $3 worth of gasoline to set fire to his apartment building, killing seven people and leaving dozens...

A day after one of their colleagues was seriously injured while tending to an elephant, keepers at Lincoln Park Zoo wondered if anything could have been done differently to prevent...

In a city rife with examples of children caught up in street violence, the politicians and experts who gathered Monday morning in Chicago to talk about the issue hardly needed...

An employee of a Joliet auto service shop was arrested at work Saturday and charged with assisting in a robbery at the shop last fall which left a co-worker dead....