Maria Kantzavelos

Police are searching for a teenager who allegedly killed a 35-year-old man early Saturday because the youth was angry that someone had been "disrespecting" his mother. Hobson Williams, whose address...

Peoples Gas Co. workers on Friday ratified a four-year contract, ending a three-week walkout by the union's 1,050 workers and sending them back to work Monday. By a vote of...

A judge Tuesday upheld the firing of the Chicago police officer who fatally shot LaTanya Haggerty but ruled the Police Board violated the rights of three other officers disciplined in...

Though the verdict came relatively quickly, the jury deliberating the fate of Jonathan Tolliver early on wasn't convinced they could unanimously convict him of killing Chicago Police Officer Michael Ceriale....

The Cook County Board Tuesday gave preliminary approval to a plan to give property tax relief to longtime residents of neighborhoods that are rapidly gentrifying, causing home values and tax...

After returning to Indiana Saturday morning and being placed in state custody, a girl who police say was on the run with her school principal will undergo a series of...

Illinois revenue officials have programmed a special toll-free tax hot line for seniors and the disabled so that no one can get through to ask questions more than three times...

Veronica Bowers may have lived on and off in Muskegon, Mich., but a houseboat on the Amazon River among Peruvian villagers was her home. That was where she and her...

Walgreen Co. will hold off cutting back prescription services in poor Illinois neighborhoods so its executives can work with community activists to pressure the state to reconsider reductions in Medicaid...

When he heard the word "drosophila," Michael Zivat was confident he was moments away from becoming this year's city champion in the baiduhai Chicagoland Spelling Bee. "It was one...