Kim Barker

The Lake Grove Village apartment complex on the South Side is the kind of place where people with low incomes and high hopes move on their way up. The privately...

An image of two young girls resembling a pair of South Side sisters missing for a week was captured by surveillance video Tuesday at a grocery just three blocks from...

The mother of a 1-year-old boy killed in a fire early Friday was being questioned after the boy and three other children had been left alone in their apartment, police...

The landlord of a troubled Loop skyscraper faces a bill of at least $1.3 million from City Hall for everything from putting up emergency scaffolding to the loss of parking...

For years, people here have talked about the Big One. They keep earthquake kits in their cars, fresh water in their refrigerators, and regularly use the word "retrofit" as a...

For years, people here have talked about the Big One. They keep earthquake kits in their cars, fresh water in their refrigerators, and regularly use the word "retrofit" as a...

On one wall of a windowless room at the Criminal Courts Building, jurors taped up huge sheets of butcher paper and, using felt-tipped markers, began listing reasons for and against...