Lauren R. Harrison

Despite repeated assurances that widespread problems were in the past, Chicago descended into yet another, new circle in its months-long parking hell Wednesday. Some 250 newly installed pay-and-display parking boxes...

It's a perennial problem that authorities want to nip in the bud. Chicago police nabbed a 55-year-old man for allegedly stealing potted flowers Tuesday from a median outside the Civic...

A day after the owner of an Assyrian social club and a female companion were killed in a hit-and-run crash in Chicago's West Rogers Park neighborhood, a longtime friend of...

A 59-year-old woman died Tuesday morning when a fire broke out in a three-story apartment building, neighbors and fire officials said. Ann Davis was found in the kitchen of a...

Chicagoans who saw or heard about the man dragging heavy tires along the Chicago lakefront to condition himself for a polar expedition may want to know the training apparently paid...

It's hard to find a vegetable that could double as a comfort food; especially those pesky green ones. But collard greens (small side $1.50; large side $3) at this legendary...

On the eve of the inauguration of a president who ran on assurances of hope, Connie Williams found a dose of her own Monday in the selfless actions of strangers....

A little more than a month before his scheduled release from prison, a Cicero man was charged with the 2006 rape of a woman at knifepoint while claiming he was...

On an average December day at the height of last year's record- and axle-breaking winter pothole season, the city's Department of Transportation logged 300 pothole complaints. By 8 p.m. Monday,...

Call them the ghosts of Christmas Near-Future. Bleary-eyed, tired and sore, they haunted the terminals of O'Hare International Airport on Wednesday afternoon with one goal in mind: get home for...