Louise Kiernan

"The Freeze: Part II" is coming to water pipes, furnaces, car batteries, fingers, noses, toes and ears near you. The arctic blanket covering the Chicago area got kicked aside long...

A Southwest Side man who claims he was trying to burp his girlfriend's 4-month-old son when he allegedly administered blows that killed the infant was released on a personal recognizance...

Four people were killed, including an elderly man, in weekend violence in Chicago. A 72-year-old man was fatally stabbed in the chest Sunday in a South Side apartment, Wentworth Area...

Dr. Ali Khalili was a 61-year-old man so racked by bone cancer that he needed a cane to walk and a full-time morphine pump to cut the pain. He was...

By Sunday morning, the words were familiar to most who attended mass. The letter from Cardinal Joseph Bernardin saying he was innocent of allegations of sexual abuse had been read...

Three of the nation's most influential African-American leaders brought a single message to those who gathered Sunday in Chicago for the gang-peace summit. Jesse Jackson called for unity. Benjamin Chavis,...

In Englewood, on a block pitted with abandoned buildings and crack houses, the Burkses were an anomaly, a family that seemed to have saved themselves from the decay that surrounded...

George M. Keller Jr., 72, a marketing executive who helped create Dial soap and the Keebler elves, died Thursday in Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Mr. Keller, who lived on the North...

A Cicero woman and her granddaughter, found dead Sunday in a bathtub, were sexually assaulted and slain, according to autopsies performed Monday. Eight-year-old Bridgete Cannaday was strangled, and her grandmother,...

Despite his attempts to secure a mail-order Aryan bride and to correspond with white supremacists across the country, there is no evidence yet that Jonathan Preston Haynes was closely affiliated...