Laurie Goering

A proposed historical farm rejected by Barrington residents has gotten a warm welcome from the south suburbs, and two communities are vying for the project before a Cook County forest...

What a difference a few miles make. Out at the new Wal-Mart on the edge of Downstate Rantoul Friday, spirits were as low as the after-Christmas prices following an announcement...

In happier days, neighbors remember, Edward DeYoung used to stroll through his Alsip neighborhood with his grown daughter, Annie, passing the low-slung brick four-flats and occasionally stopping to say hello....

A Calumet City gas station manager and mother of four was found shot to death late Wednesday after a robbery, just a day after a bank teller in neighboring Hammond...

Trustees of south suburban Matteson have voted to try to annex a parcel of land on the village`s northern border in an effort to halt or gain control of a...

It wasn`t exactly death in the afternoon Saturday as Chicago`s first bullfight in memory ended up pretty much a draw, with no blood spilled on either side. But if city...

A Cook County Jail guard was charged Saturday with attempted murder in the shooting of a South Side man outside a Cicero tavern. Jose Garcia, 31, a sheriff`s employee since...

A Joliet-area father and son off on a fishing trip were found dead Thursday afternoon in the wreckage of their helicopter near Commonwealth Edison Co.`s Braidwood nuclear power plant. The...

Three Greenpeace members, including two Chicago men, were arrested Wednesday morning after they rappelled off a bridge and plugged a pipe discharging wastewater from a U.S. Steel plant in Gary....

The well at Rebecca Strong`s house is dry, as it has been each summer for six years, and there`s only a coating of sandy dust in the two rusted 55-gallon...