Louise Kiernan

Jonathan Preston Haynes, the Maryland chemist who has allegedly confessed to killing a North Shore plastic surgeon, is being investigated in connection with a number of threatening letters sent to...

Tuesday was a rough day to be a police officer on the Near West Side of Chicago. It was also a confusing one. One officer was pelted by rocks and...

The gun, a .44 Magnum tucked between Cathy Robinson's mattress and box spring, was supposed to be there for protection. Her estranged husband, Eugene Robinson, told police he gave it...

While most of Chicago was celebrating the Bulls' third NBA title Sunday night, some fans' joy was being transformed into recklessness-and a woman, a teenager and 12-year-old boy were fatally...

Last year, Mayor Richard Daley derided them as putt-putts. On Wednesday, they became his gondolas of gold. "This is truly the equivalent of a gold rush," Gery Chico, Daley's chief...

A 12-year-old boy, so short you could barely see him in the phalanx of lawyers and police surrounding him in Juvenile Court, will be tried for murder in the death...

Keeyan Pinnick lived in the shadow of death, in a white frame house across from a graveyard along one of Joliet's busiest streets. His own passage from life to death...

For now, gang leader Willie Lloyd's trips in a white limousine and his stays in comfortable hotels are on hold. Lloyd, arrested Saturday in Deerfield on charges of armed robbery...

Three months ago Monday, Willie Lloyd left prison in a mink coat and a limousine, the prodigal boss of one of the Midwest's largest and most violent gangs. He will...

At 15, Nicole Loza was a mother and a child. And early Sunday, she became the most recent victim in a spate of gang violence that police worry will only...