Karen Mellen

Strong winds gusting up to 35 m.p.h. fanned fires and whipped up havoc in the Chicago area Wednesday and Thursday. In Chicago's Noble Square neighborhood, winds spread flames to five...

Soon after her 7-year-old son disappeared from outside her bungalow as she cooked dinner, Michelle Mesarchik sneaked through darkened streets, pressed against the wall of a house where she was...

Two former Will County business executives, sentenced to federal prison last month for the multimillion-dollar collapse of a grain elevator company, were charged in an indictment unsealed Wednesday with 49...

A judge has postponed the trial of a former New Lenox trustee and his wife on theft charges, pending an appeal by the Will County state's attorney's office of a...

Tuesday's 1 1/2 to 2 inches of rain fell short of breaking the record for this time in November, but the steady dousing was enough to inconvenience hundreds of area...

In a report unsealed Thursday on orders of a federal judge, a national expert on treating sex offenders ripped the state's treatment efforts at a Joliet facility where sexually violent...

Another key member of former Gov. George Ryan's kitchen cabinet was indicted Wednesday, hit by federal perjury charges for allegedly lying to a grand jury about pocketing a $50,000 lobbying...

As an 8-year-old Romeoville girl begins her long recovery from losing a thumb in a dog attack, experts said Thursday that she could be a good prospect for a reconstructed...

Saying that police officers are "the good guys, not the bad guys," Gov. Rod Blagojevich on Monday defended his decision to veto a provision in death penalty reform legislation that...

Calling the suspect in 10 home invasions and a handful of sex crimes in the Joliet area since July a "terrorist" who cast a pall of fear across the community,...