Kristen Kridel

Mayor Richard Daley's controversial blue bag recycling program will end this summer, and the city will expand suburban-style recycling across the city by 2011. City Hall slowly has been moving...

Police widened their search for three children from Humboldt Park Tuesday, their mother slain and her husband the target of manhunt that spread beyond Illinois. Sofia Garcia, 30, had an...

If Wayne Jackson wasn't at home, his family knew exactly what he was doing: working. That's all he ever did, his family said. The Tribune employee was fatally shot early...

To heck with a Hummer, a lunar rover is what's needed to navigate North Lake Shore Drive. The eruption of potholes along the scenic boulevard is so bad this year...

Classmates of a 15-year-old student shot and wounded Tuesday night on the Southeast Side said they are scared to be out in their neighborhood, where many of the buildings are...

Three of the men killed were family, lived together and, for the last 11 years, worked together at McCormick Place. Otis Thomas labored at the convention center for 25 years,...

Kate Caleal has two friends who are fighting in Iraq. She wants them to come home now. So the Rogers Park resident joined about 2,200 other anti-war demonstrators Wednesday, the...

A new era in mass transit dawned in Illinois Monday as senior citizens climbed aboard buses and trains for free, an event that transit agencies took in stride and riders...

Several Chicago homicide detectives, each the father of at least one daughter, refused to leave unknown the identity of a teenage girl found strangled, bound and stuffed in a cardboard...

Nine days after Yasmin Acree, 15, went missing from her Austin home , a local clergy group offered a $1,000 reward for information leading to her whereabouts. Standing with Yasmin's...