Linnet Myers

Abbas Malik was a marked man. How he escaped a kidnap team sent from Baghdad is one of countless bits in a mosaic, just now fully emerging, of extraordinary bravery...

Sixteen people were injured when they inhaled ammonia gas that spread throughout a Brach Candy Co. plant Tuesday morning, forcing the evacuation of 1,100 employees. Five workers were hospitalized because...

A Chicago Transit Authority maintenance worker was struck and killed by a CTA train Tuesday. Edilberto Trejo, 35, a signal maintainer, was checking a signal box on the Congress line...

Mayor Richard Daley on Thursday warned against anti-Arab discrimination as a result of the war with Iraq. His comments came one day after a man was charged with assault and...

Chicago police took a suspect into custody late Monday for the fatal shooting of one police officer and the wounding of a second in their squad car earlier in the...

Two Chicago police officers were shot, one fatally, Monday afternoon by a man they had arrested and placed in their squad car, expecting to be led to a drug house,...

Cook County Democrats recaptured the sheriff`s office in Tuesday`s election and retained the County Board presidency, but Republican Jack O`Malley won a big victory in the race for state`s attorney....

Democrat Richard Phelan, a Winnetka attorney, took a giant political step Tuesday, handily winning the Cook County Board presidency in his first try for elective office. In addition, Democrat Michael...

The Chicago area suffered its first casualties from the U.S. military buildup as part of Operation Desert Shield when three Marines were presumed killed after two helicopters crashed Monday in...

Environmentalists fighting for the trees of the Shawnee National Forest won a court injunction Wednesday that temporarily blocks logging in the forest`s Fairview Church area. The decision means that loggers,...