Maria Kantzavelos

Developers who want to raise a $1.5 billion forest of high-rises and townhouses near the mouth of the Chicago River say there's no reason to stop the Chicago Plan Commission...

Motorola Inc. will cut an additional 7,000 jobs in its troubled cellular telephone division, the telecommunications giant said Tuesday, as it struggles to reverse falling sales and profits. Motorola's cell...

Officials are seeking to have a Crystal Lake woman involuntarily committed to a mental health facility while investigating the death of her 88-year-old mother, found dead in her daughter's home...

Rev. Jesse Jackson on Saturday said he will ask Mayor Richard Daley and Fire Commissioner James Joyce to meet with him to discuss hiring more minorities and women from a...

After watching a divided and emotional jury struggle for 10 days, a Cook County judge abruptly declared a mistrial Thursday in the case of a man accused of gunning down...

Miyuki Cannon usually drove her car to Pontiac to visit her brother in prison. But Friday she decided to take a ride in the Salvation Army's van. And at the...

As midnight struck in country after country around the world, a year once considered the far future became a reality amid joyous celebrations that lacked the fanfare of last year's...

Joe Sallas, an ex-convict who was accused of shooting at the publisher of a south suburban newspaper chain, was found not guilty of attempted murder after a daylong bench trial...

Before the shovels could be put away from Monday's blizzard, the Chicago area took another hit of snow Wednesday with more of the same--along with freezing rain--predicted for the weekend....

The DuPage Theater is likely to remain boarded up at Main Street and Parkside Avenue in Lombard for at least the next year while the village studies how to restore...